Stringer v. Scroggy’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“been unable to present facts, and not mere inferences, to show that Kelly had an actual conflict of interest which rendered him ineffective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stringer v. Jackson
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.