Pollard v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 887 · 1994
Citation profile
40 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Allen (2001), Sidebottom v. Delo (1995)
40 federal appellate ·
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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. California · Darden v. Wainwright
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no constitutional right to counsel there can be no constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for his procedural default is that his appeal counsel was ineffective for failing to raise this claim on appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Schneider's argument that the ineffectiveness of his direct appeal counsel constitutes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schneider v. Delo“reasonable professional performance [by appellate counsel] could not have omitted the prosecutor's statements from review [for] plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Six v. Delo
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.