Thomas v. Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.3d 513 · 1998
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Cargle v. Mullin (2003), United States v. Rezin (2003)
16 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Teague v. Lane · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Caspari Superintendent Missouri Eastern Correctional Center et al Bohlen · United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan v. Leckie Smokeless Coal Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reasonable investigation is not ... the investigation that the best criminal defense lawyer in the world, blessed not only with unlimited time and resources but also with the inestimable benefit of hindsight, would *253 conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rompilla v. Horn
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.