Washington v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 1472 · 1991
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. McVeigh (1998), 33 Cal. 4th 382 - People v. Brown (2004)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Edwards v. Arizona
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reasonable probability that introduction of this forensic evidence would, at the least, have raised a reasonable doubt of Washington's guilt in the jury's mind, or have caused the jury to recommend life imprisonment rather than death”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Washington v. Murray
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.