Cepulonis v. Ponte’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 573 · 1983
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 8 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Whitlow v. State (2008), Lema v. United States (1993)
34 federal appellate · 8 district · 11 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 Sumner v. Mata · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Beasley v. United States · Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden · United States v. Bosch
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant seeking to set aside a guilty plea must at the very least show that correct information would have made a difference in his decision to plead guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“misinformation may be more vulnerable to constitutional challenge than mere lack of information”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[J]ust as counsel is not required to waste the court’s time pursuing frivolous legal motions ... so too counsel need not chase wild factual geese when it appears, in light of informed professional judgment, that a defense is implausible or insubstantial as a matter of law, or, as here, as a matter of fact and of the realities of proof, procedure, and trial tactics.”
2 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.