Knight v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.3d 6 · 2006
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 63 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Valerio (2012), United States v. Rodriguez (2012)
18 federal appellate · 63 district · 6 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Estelle v. McGuire
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“given the facts known at the time, counsel's choice was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have made it.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[It] is a 'highly demanding and heavy burden.'”
4 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.