Maples v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

77 federal appellate · 8 district · 11 state decisions

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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We agree that, under agency principles, a client cannot be charged with the acts or omissions of an attorney who has abandoned him.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Perez v. Stephens · Gunner v. Welch

2. “Following the default, the firm’s interest in avoiding damage to its own reputation was at odds with Maples’[s] strongest argument — i.e., that his attorneys had abandoned him, therefore he had cause to be relieved from the default. Yet [the firm] did not cede Maples’[s] representation to a new attorney, who could have made Maples’[s] abandonment argument plain to the Court of Appeals. Instead, the firm represented Maples through briefing and oral argument in the Eleventh Circuit, where they attempted to cast responsibility for the mishap on the clerk of the Alabama trial court.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Perez v. Stephens · Christeson v. Roper

3. “[W]hen a petitioner's postconviction attorney misses a filing deadline, the petitioner is bound by the oversight and cannot rely on it to establish cause.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stojetz v. Ishee · State v. Waddy