Carter v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.3d 240 · 2002
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Bowman (2003), United States v. Jones (2002)
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · Williams v. Taylor · Edwards v. City of Goldsboro · State v. McCollum · United States v. Teague
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because it may be tempting to find an unsuccessful trial strategy to be unreasonable, “a court must indulge a strong presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance; that is, the defendant must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action might be considered sound trial strategy.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First of all, the petitioner must demonstrate “that counsel’s performance was deficient,” meaning “counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the ‘counsel’ guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.” Second, he must show “that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense,” i.e., that “counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lT]his Court normally views contentions not raised in an opening brief to be waived.”). 3 . Plaintiffs federal claims are appropriately decided with reference to the state statute of limitations. It is well-settled that”
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.