5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 22 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from David Ronald Chandler v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Ronald Chandler v. United States Anchor | green | “counsel is not required to present every nonfrivolous defense; nor is counsel required to present all mitigation evidence, even if the additional mitigation evidence would not have been incompatible with counsel's strategy.” | 6 |
| 2 | United States v. Pease | green | “we cannot say as a matter of law that reliance on a client's statements is per se deficient performance” | 4 |
| 3 | Jenkins v. State | green | “the amount of evidence incriminating jenkins . . . was overwhelming.” | 4 |
| 4 | Hall v. Florida | green | “hen a defendant's iq test score falls within the test's acknowledged and inherent margin of error, the defendant must be able to present additional evidence of intellectual disability, including testimony regarding adaptive deficits.” | 4 |
| 5 | Reeves v. State | green | “this court has repeatedly held that a circuit court is not required to accept, consider, or apply the 'flynn effect' in determining intellectual disability.” | 4 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.