Smith v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 335 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 356 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Robinson v. State (2003), Mincey v. Head (2000)
14 federal appellate · 335 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Pitts v. Glass · Spivey v. State · Ingram v. State · Conner 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 356 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability (i.e., a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome) that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. [Cit.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Brannan · Schofield v. Cook“made in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“every effort must be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.