Halbert v. Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 6 district · 185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 345 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Lafler v. Cooper (2012), 132 S. Ct. 1309 - Martinez v. Ryan (2012)
76 federal appellate · 6 district · 185 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on Anders v. California · United States v. Booker · Blakely v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California
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 345 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the Court's decision was that the Court of Appeals, unlike this Court, sits as an error-correction court. Id. Second, the Supreme Court concluded that indigent defendants pursuing first-tier review in the Court of Appeals are”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]e hold that the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require the appointment of counsel for defendants ... who seek access to first-tier review....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Court of Appeals' ruling on a plea-convicted defendant's claims provides the first, and likely the only, direct review the defendant's conviction and sentence will receive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.