Lucas v. O'Dea’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 412 · 1999
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Greer v. Mitchell (2001), Miller v. Francis (2001)
112 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Blockburger v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel's failure to raise an issue whose resolution is clearly foreshadowed by existing decisions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, a defendant must show that counsel’s errors were so serious that he or she was not functioning as the counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. .. .Second, a defendant asserting an ineffective assistance of counsel claim must generally show that the defense counsel’s deficient performance prejudiced the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[o]nly in a rare case' will a court find ineffective assistance of counsel based upon a trial attorney's failure to make an objection that would have been overruled under the then-prevailing law.”
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.