Pitsonbarger v. Gramley’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 728 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger (2002), Moore v. Gibson (1999)
25 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Estelle v. McGuire
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]rial counsel cannot be said to be constitutionally ineffective for deciding not to bring in co-counsel, unless there is some reason ... why the first lawyer is unable to provide adequate representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Woodford“the charge that a defendant was under the influence of psychotropic drugs at or near the time of trial is a serious one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burt v. Uchtman
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.