Sherron v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.3d 285 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2014
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Schlup v. Delo · New Jersey v. New York · Hughey v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel's performance was deficient if it fell 'outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“counsel’s decision to forgo what would at best have been cumulative testimony was not professionally unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forrest v. Steele
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.