Burris v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 655 · 1995
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Graham v. Johnson (1999), Calderon v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California (1998)
33 federal appellate · 2 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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Giglio v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claims of ineffective assistance [of counsel] have become routine. If we are to believe the briefs filed by appellate lawyers, the only reason defendants are convicted is the bumbling of their predecessors. But lawyers are not miracle workers. Most convictions follow ineluctably from the defendants’ illegal deeds, and nothing the lawyers do or omit has striking effect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a prisoner whose principal hope lies in setting aside his conviction must stake his life on prevailing (because, if he loses, he forfeits any entitlement to contest the penalty later).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Vasquez“fil[e] a petition raising all exhausted issues and ask[ ] the court for a stay until the remaining issues have been exhausted”
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.