Lowry v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 344 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably David L. Murtishaw v. Jeanne Woodford, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin (2001), Lawson v. Borg (1995)
26 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bell v. Wolfish · Nix v. Williams · Kimmelman v. Morrison · United States v. Hector Francisco Molina
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To demonstrate ineffective assistance of counsel, ... [Grantham] must establish deficient performance and prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to file a motion which he knows to be meritless on the facts and the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
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.