Pryor v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 710 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Wilkins v. Bowersox (1998), Boysiewick v. Schriro (1999)
9 federal appellate ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Simmons v. Al Lockhart · Williams v. Al Lockhart · Goins v. State · Girtman v. Al Lockhart
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable probability that an appeal of [the] issue would have been successful and that the result of the appeal would thereby have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ivy v. Bowersox“that the errors had some conceivable effect on the outcome of the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-2854
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.