Julian v. Bartley’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.3d 487 · 2007
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Lafler v. Cooper (2012), Lafler v. Cooper (2012)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Hill v. Lockhart · McMann v. Richardson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the context of plea agreements, the prejudice prong focuses on whether the deficient information was the decisive factor in a defendant’s decision to plead guilty or to proceed to trial. It is only in this prejudice context that consideration of advice versus a guarantee warrants discussion. The strength of an attorney’s prediction — that is whether it was billed as a guarantee, advice, belief, or guess — goes toward determining whether the attorney’s statements were the decisive factor in the defendant’s decision to take a plea or opt for trial. Obviously a guarantee of a particular sentence might be more likely to affect a decision to take a plea or go to trial than an attorney’s mere advice couched in all of the usual disclaimers that attorneys are trained to assert.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzales v. Mize“[t]o gamble with seven years for the slim chance of acquittal might be a reasonable calculus for some. It is hard to imagine, however, that any reasonable defendant would be willing to risk thirty-seven years for the remote chance of acquittal.”
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.