Link v. Luebbers’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.3d 1197 · 2006
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2024
11 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · Rompilla v. Beard · Wardius v. Oregon · Gray v. Greer
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When appellate counsel competently asserts some claims on a defendant's behalf, it is difficult to sustain [an] ineffective assistance claim based on allegations that counsel was deficient for failing to assert some other claims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When appellate counsel competently asserts some claims on a defendant’s behalf, it is difficult to sustain a[n] ineffective assistance claim based on allegations that counsel was deficient for failing to assert some other claims. Because one of appellate counsel’s important duties is to focus on those arguments that are most likely to succeed, counsel will not be held to be ineffective for failure to raise every conceivable issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“inadequate investigation can undermine the reasonableness of an otherwise sound tactical decision to not put on evidence.”
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.