Gray v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 265 · 1993
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Lucas v. O'Dea (1999), United States v. Span (1996)
26 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Zafiro v. United States · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Gemelli v. Pennsylvania · 322 So. 2d 189 - State v. Butler
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fell beneath an objective standard of reasonable professional assistance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm”
2 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.