McDowell v. Leapley’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 232 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2010
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Sumner v. Mata · California v. Beheler · Lockhart v. McCree · United States v. Kaminski
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“review the legal conclusions of the lower court de novo,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Culkin v. Purkett
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.