United States v. Patten’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 774 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2020
14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A movant is barred from raising ... constitutional claims for the first time on collateral review unless he demonstrates [1] cause for failing to raise the issue on direct appeal and [2] actual prejudice resulting from the error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the error is not of constitutional or jurisdictional magnitude, the defendant must show the error would result in a complete miscarriage of justice.”
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.