Parkus v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 933 · 1994
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Sidebottom v. Delo (1995), Randall Eugene Cannon v. Gary Gibson (2001)
30 federal appellate · 1 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Bagley · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily turn[s] on whether the prisoner can show that some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel's efforts to comply with the State's procedural rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A petitioner may demonstrate an objective impediment to compliance with a procedural rule by showing that the `factual or legal basis for a claim was not reasonably available to counsel, or that some interference by officials made compliance impracticable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schneider v. Delo“(1) manifest the prosecutor's intention to call attention to the defendant's failure to testify, or (2) are such that the jury would naturally and necessarily take them as a comment on the defendant's failure to testify.”
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.