Jackson v. Leonardo’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 81 · 1998
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Eze v. Senkowski (2003)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Blockburger v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing Strickland claims, courts are instructed to 'indulge a strong presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance’ and that counsel's conduct was not the result of error but derived instead from trial strategy. We are also instructed, when reviewing decisions by counsel, not to ‘second-guess reasonable professional judgments and impose on ... counsel a duty to raise every”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"the failure of [the defendant's] counsel to challenge [the defendant's] double conviction . . . amounts to constitutional ineffectiveness. Had counsel challenged the [criminal use of a] firearm count, it is surely the case that `the result of the proceeding would have been different.'" Id. at 86.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] petitioner may establish constitutionally inadequate performance if he shows that counsel omitted significant and obvious issues while pursuing issues that were clearly and significantly weaker.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eze v. Senkowski
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.