Steele v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.3d 14 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Williams v. Taylor · Brady v. United States · Cuthrell v. Director, Patuxent Institution · United States v. Salmon 90-3355 E 90-3363 90-3366 90-3438
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he distinction between `direct' and `collateral' consequences of a plea, while sometimes shaded in the relevant decisions, turns on whether the result represents a definite, immediate and largely automatic effect on the range of the defendant's punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We presume that the Supreme Court meant what it said when it used the word `direct'; by doing so, it excluded collateral consequences.”
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.