In Re: David Lee Goff’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2023
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
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Evitts v. Lucey · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Beller v. United States · Goff v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n this area States have substantial discretion to develop and implement programs to aid prisoners seeking to secure postconviction review. [Here], the State has made a valid choice to give prisoners the assistance of counsel without requiring the full panoply of procedural protections that the Constitution requires be given to defendants who are in a fundamentally different position — at trial and on first appeal as of right. In this context, the Constitution does not put the State to the difficult choice between affording no counsel whatsoever or following the strict procedural guidelines enunciated in Anders. 42”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Graves“At bottom, the decision below [finding a right to competent counsel in post-conviction proceedings] rests on a premise that we are unwilling to accept — that when a State chooses to offer help to those seeking relief from convictions, the Federal Constitution dictates the exact form such assistance must assume.” Id. at 274-75 (quoting Finley, 481 U.S. 551 , 107 S.Ct. 1990 ). . Id. at 275. . Id. (quoting Finley, 481 U.S. 551 , 107 S.Ct. 1990 ); see also Beazley v. Johnson, 242 F.3d 248, 271 (5th Cir.2001) (emphasizing that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Graves
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.