Ciak v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 296 · 1995
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Mickens v. Taylor (2002), O'Brien v. Dubois (1998)
51 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Haines v. Kerner · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Teague v. Lane
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cuyler v.] Sullivan mandates a reversal when the trial court has failed to make an inquiry even though it 'knows or reasonably should know that a particular conflict exists.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is the rare attorney who can be expected to contend on appeal that his representation was so poor that he deprived his client of a fair trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief,'”
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.