Powell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 490 · 2005
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023
5 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · United States v. James · Kornahrens v. Evatt · United States v. Howze
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent 'unusual circumstances,' 'the case law is clear that an attorney's assistance is not rendered ineffective because he failed to anticipate a new rule of law.'”
2 later decisions 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.