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Solomon v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis

735 F.2d 395 · 1984

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
July 2016
most recently cited

24 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably 194 W. Va. 3 - State v. Miller (1995), Watson v. Louisiana (1985)

24 federal appellate · 5 district · 13 state decisions

2801984199020002010decided

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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Denno · Griffin v. California · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Bonner v. City of Prichard

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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “pursue every path until it bears fruit or until all available hope withers.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Genius v. Pepe · Rosado v. Allen
  2. “while attorneys may disagree as to how many or what particular witnesses to call, such is the stuff out of which trials are made.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 523 So. 2d 475 - Waldrop v. State · Waters v. Thomas
  3. “it must be kept in mind that effective counsel is not errorless counsel, and that we should not rely on hindsight in measuring effectiveness.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Glenn v. Sowders

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.