White v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 1218 · 1992
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Waters v. Thomas (1995)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 45 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 · Harris v. Reed · Maynard v. Cartwright · Smith v. Murray · Clemons v. Mississippi
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test has nothing to do with what the best lawyers would have done. Nor is the test even what most good lawyers would have done. We ask only whether some reasonable lawyer at the trial could have acted, in the circumstances, as defense counsel acted at trial.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyer v. Calderon · Dyer v. Calderon“[i]t should be beyond cavil that an attorney who fails altogether to make any preparations for the penalty phase of a capital murder trial deprives his client of reasonably effective assistance of counsel by any objective standard of reasonableness,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State · Pierce v. State“Trial counsel did enough. A lawyer can almost always do something more in every case. But the Constitution requires a good deal less than maximum performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waters v. Thomas
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.