Guinan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 468 · 1993
Citation profile
139 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably Massaro v. United States (2003), United States v. Galloway (1995)
139 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Herrera v. Collins · Godinez v. Moran
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal courts lack the power ... to rectify errors that fall short of 'vitiat[ing] the sentencing court's jurisdiction or are otherwise of constitutional magnitude.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“confident that the ineffectiveness of the lawyer's assistance was obvious from the transcript and might not think that the lawyer who had disserved him (or anyone else) would have anything helpful to say at an evidentiary hearing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Often, indeed usually, the effectiveness of a trial lawyer's performance cannot be evaluated without an evidentiary hearing at which the lawyer is asked to explain why he did not follow seemingly promising lines of defense.”
5 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.