Beets v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 1478 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Levy (1994), Moss v. United States (2003)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 · Glasser v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Murray v. Carrier · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any hint that she had been abused by previous husbands or boyfriends. Neither [the defendant] nor any other member of her family ever conveyed to [the attorney] any information giving him reason to believe that she had a history of being physically abused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was raised in abject poverty, experienced a debilitating hearing loss, was afflicted with learning disabilities, had received head injuries as a child, and suffers from battered woman syndrome,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct a thorough investigation of [the defendant's] medical, mental, and psychological history,”
2 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.