Pollard v. White’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 1430 · 1997
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Wenner (2003), Smith v. Stewart (1998)
21 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)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Jones v. Barnes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Due Process Clause guarantees a criminal defendant effective assistance of counsel on his first appeal as of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that he was going to 'blow [the victim] away' " because it showed "an intent to shoot when he pulled the trigger”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“affirm on any ground supported by the record, even if it differs from the rationale of the district court.”
1 later decision 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.