Bunch v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 1354 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Rose v. Lee (2001), Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (2000)
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Coleman v. Thompson · Stovall v. Denno
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he best course for a federal habeas court is to credit plausible strategic judgments.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[c]ounsel feared that the overall impact of the psychiatric testimony would be to reinforce all the negative aspects of Bunch's self-destructive behavior.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“could have informed the jury of Bunch's stressful childhood, which included domestic violence, and of his loss of self-esteem following the dissolution of his marriage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.