Harris v. Housewright’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 202 · 1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Pickens v. Al Lockhart (1983), Hill v. Al Lockhart (1984)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Picard v. Connor · Argersinger v. Hamlin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o single error made by the petitioner's appointed counsel is of constitutional dimension.... [if] when viewed cumulatively, the multiple errors revealed in the record ... demonstrate that counsel's total performance was”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so pervaded every aspect of the adversary process in this case that it is impossible to determine accurately the presence or absence of prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fink v. Lockhart“counsel are presumed to have rendered effective assistance.”
1 later decision 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.