Smith v. Gaetz’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.3d 346 · 2009
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Smith v. McKee (2010), Gentry v. Sevier (2010)
12 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Slack v. McDaniel · Williams v. Taylor · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Edwards Warden v. Carpenter
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appellate counsel failed to raise an issue that was both obvious and clearly stronger than the issues he did raise.”
1 later decision 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.