Devine v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.3d 1286 · 2008
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Ovalles v. United States (2018), Osley v. United States (2014)
11 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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Roe, Warden v. Flores-Ortega · Lynn v. United States · United States v. McPhee · Gomez-Diaz v. United States
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is a mixed question of law and fact that we review de novo .”
2 later decisions 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.