Perry v. Leeke’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
164 federal appellate · 33 district · 293 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 635 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992), Maryland v. Craig (1990)
164 federal appellate · 33 district · 293 state decisions — followed in 33 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPerry v. Leeke (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 635 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in a short recess in which it is appropriate to presume that nothing but the testimony will be discussed, the testifying defendant does not have a constitutional right to advice.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage“Actual or constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether, is not subject to the kind of prejudice analysis that is appropriate in determining whether the quality of a lawyer's performance itself has been constitutionally ineffective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.