Edwards Warden v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
325 federal appellate · 244 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,586 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Rose v. Lee (2001), 132 S. Ct. 1309 - Martinez v. Ryan (2012)
325 federal appellate · 244 district · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCarpenter v. Mohr (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier
Cited together with Coleman v. Thompson · Strickland v. Washington · Murray v. Carrier · Williams v. Taylor · Schlup v. Delo
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 1,586 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, ineffective assistance adequate to establish cause for the procedural default of some other constitutional claim is itself an independent constitutional claim.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at trial, on appeal, or on state collateral attack,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim asserted as cause for the procedural default of another claim”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.