Bush v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 1082 · 1993
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Mincey v. Head (2000), Bolender v. Singletary (1994)
28 federal appellate · 5 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 · Murray v. Carrier · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Cronic · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he petitioner must show ... there is a reasonable probability that the sentencer would have weighed the balance of aggravating and mitigating factors to find that the circumstances did not warrant the death penalty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tompkins v. Moore · Weeks v. Jones“In other words, counsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary. In any ineffectiveness case, a particular decision not to investigate must be directly assessed for reasonableness in all of the circumstances, applying a heavy measure of deference to counsel’s judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“not to investigate [petitioner's] psychological history more thoroughly, not to have [petitioner] examined by a psychiatrist or psychologist, and not to present mitigating psychological evidence at the sentencing hearing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weeks v. Jones
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.