Wright v. Van Patten’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 18 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 536 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Knowles v. Mirzayance (2009), United States v. Herrera-Zuniga (2009)
261 federal appellate · 18 district · 34 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
reviewedVan Patten v. Deppisch (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · Williams v. Taylor · Hill v. Lockhart · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 536 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevented [counsel] from assisting the accused,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Payne · Moses v. Payne“cases give no clear answer to the question presented, let alone one in [petitioner's] favor”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Gerry · Pierre v. Vannoy“Because no decision of the Supreme Court has addressed the issue presented before us, it cannot be said that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established Federal law.”
4 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.