Hart v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 1067 · 1999
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably George Lindstadt v. John P. Keane, Superintendent (2001), Kenneth G. Pavel v. Melvin L. Hollins, Superintendent, Oneida Correctional Facility Eliot L. Spitzer, Attorney General of New York State (2001)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 · Robinson v. State of California · United States v. Whitten · Sanders v. Ratelle · Evans v. Lewis
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lawyer who fails adequately to investigate, and to introduce into evidence, [information] that demonstrate[s] his client's factual innocence, or that raise[s] sufficient doubt as to that question to undermine confidence in the verdict, renders deficient performance.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Issa v. Bradshaw · State v. Statler“duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he petitioner need not show that the deficient performance more likely than not altered the outcome of the case, but must demonstrate only a “reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Clark
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.