Burt v. Uchtman’s Empirical Analysis
422 F.3d 557 · 2005
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Ebert v. Gaetz (2010), Smith v. Mahoney (2010)
11 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Estelle v. McGuire · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prejudice prong requires the defendant or petitioner to 'show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Schmid v. McCauley“could not have addressed [petitioner's] current psychological condition because of the numerous changes made to his prescriptions in the eight months between the examination and the start of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Schmid v. McCauley“establish a reasonable probability that [she] would have been found incompetent ... if [her] attorneys had requested a competency hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Schmid v. McCauley
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.