Glover v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
259 federal appellate · 29 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 663 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly (2001), United States v. Knox (2002)
259 federal appellate · 29 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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
reviewedUnited States v. Glover (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Argersinger v. Hamlin
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 663 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'any amount of [additional] jail time has Sixth Amendment significance.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n order to avoid turning Strickland into an automatic rule of reversal in the non-capital sentencing context, we believe that in deciding [] an ineffectiveness claim, a court must determine whether there is a reasonable probability that but for trial counsel's errors the defendant’s non-capital sentence would have been significantly less harsh.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“case[s] where trial strategies, in retrospect, might be criticized for leading to a harsher sentence,”
2 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.