Felker v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 907 · 1995
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Felker v. Turpin (1996), Chandler v. United States (2000)
27 federal appellate ·
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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Jones v. Howard
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]rial counsel may not concede the guilt of a defendant who has pleaded not guilty, at least not without the defendant’s consent. That is true enough as to the guilt stage.”
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.