Cantu v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 1006 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably West v. Johnson (1996), Andrews v. Collins (1994)
4 federal appellate · 7 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 · Simmons v. United States · Teague v. Lane · Manson v. Brathwaite · Wainwright v. Witt
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“thoroughly investigated these claims, consulting with his client as well as [client's] father and brother for possible mitigating evidence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“low IQ, emotional immaturity, troubled youth, trauma as a result of his parents' divorce, and appearance of neglect,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While petitioner is correct that the admission of expert testimony regarding eyewitness identifications is proper, he cites no authority to support the theory that his trial counsel was required to call an expert witness to challenge [the eyewitness’] testimony. Indeed, Cantu’s trial counsel testified at the evidentiary hearing that he considered seeking the services of an expert witness on the issue of eye-witness identification but decided against it based on his belief that his cross-examination of [the eyewitness] would be sufficient to refute the accuracy of the identification. 116”
1 later decision 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.