Kellogg v. Skon’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.3d 447 · 1999
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Allen (2001), United States v. Bentley (2009)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the question is not whether the prosecutor's remarks are `undesirable or even universally condemned.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel's conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the [relevant proceeding] cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there is a reasonable probability that the error complained of affected the outcome of the trial i.e., that absent the alleged impropriety, the verdict probably would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.