Lumpkin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 1084 · 1971
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably Wright v. Estelle (1978), Lumpkin v. Ricketts (1977)
39 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Mackay v. Nesbett · Wainwright v. Simpson · Nelson v. Peyton · Edgar C. Worts v. A. L. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State Prison
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established in this Circuit, as elsewhere, that an indigent accused is denied effective assistance of counsel at a critical stage of the criminal process when his court-appointed attorney fails to advise him of his right to appeal, the procedure and time limits involved, and of his right to appointed counsel on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot agree that ... a showing of some chance of success is a prerequisite for habeas corpus relief [in this context].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cannon v. Berry
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.