Atkins v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 952 · 1992
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), United States v. Brown (1995)
46 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Rose v. Lundy
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Most important, we must avoid second-guessing counsel's performance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] lawyer can almost always do something more in every case”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere fact that other witnesses might have been available or that other testimony might have been elicited from those who testified is not a sufficient ground to prove ineffectiveness of counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.