Smith v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.3d 1051 · 1999
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Bullock v. Carver (2002), United States of America v. Alejandro Bustos De La Pava (2001)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Waters v. Thomas · Hodges v. Carter · White v. Singletary
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s an acknowledgment that law is no exact science, the rule that an attorney is not liable for an error of judgment on an unsettled proposition of law is universally recognized....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinarily, at least, lawyers' acts or omissions that do not rise to the level of professional malpractice, a fortiori, cannot amount to a constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Maloney
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.