Pennington v. Housewright’s Empirical Analysis
666 F.2d 329 · 1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2004
11 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Sumner v. Mata
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he federal courts cannot fairly adopt a per se rule excluding all possibility that a defendant’s representations at the time his guilty plea was accepted were so much the product of such factors as misunderstanding, duress, or misrepresentation by others as to make the guilty plea a constitutionally inadequate basis for imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weeks v. Bowersox“A hearing can be denied if there is no indication that material facts would be developed at a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Herring
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.