Perron v. Perrin’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 669 · 1984
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Scarpa v. Dubois (1994), Lema v. United States (1993)
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · Barker v. Wingo · Gideon v. Wainwright · Simmons 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to file suppression motion was inconsequential, given the admissibility of the pretrial photographic identifications and the strong in-court identification by the victim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. Fulcomer“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 majoritye.g. Scarpa v. Dubois“whether the identification procedure was impermissibly suggestive.”
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.