Session v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1993
10 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 MacHibroda v. United States · Costello v. United States · Mitchell v. United States · Bettis v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The factual allegations [alleging ineffective assistance of counsel] related primarily to purported occurrences . . . upon which the record could 27 . . cast no real light. Nor were the circumstances alleged of a kind that the [trial judge] would completely resolve by drawing upon his own personal knowledge or recollection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unless the motion and files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief, the court shall ... grant a prompt hearing [on the motion], determine the issues, and make findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect thereto.”
1 later decision 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.