Loyd v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 149 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Glenn v. Tate (1995), Kenneth G. Pavel v. Melvin L. Hollins, Superintendent, Oneida Correctional Facility Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of New York State (2001)
17 federal appellate · 6 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 · Ake v. Oklahoma · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Liegl v. Webb
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.
“crucial distinction between strategic judgment calls and plain omissions has echoed in the judgments of this court”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hether counsel's omission served a strategic purpose is a pivotal point in Strickland and its progeny”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The state court’s factual findings make clear that the decision of defense counsel not to pursue an independent psychological analysis of [the'appellant] was neither a strategic choice made after investigation nor a strategic choice made in light of limits on investigation. There were no limitations; funds were available. According to the state factual findings, [lead counsel’s] decision had nothing to do with strategy; he wrongly assumed that funds were unavailable and he abandoned what he knew to be an important pursuit. [The second attorney’s] decision had not been made after thorough investigation of the law; [counsel] was unaware of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hinton v. State
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.