Meeks v. Bergen’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 322 · 1984
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Maupin v. Smith (1986), Combs v. Coyle (2000)
63 federal appellate · 4 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 · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Wainwright v. Sykes · McMann v. Richardson
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judicial scrutiny of counsel's performance must be highly deferential.... Because of the difficulties inherent in making the evaluation, a court must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance; that is, the defendant must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action `might be considered sound trial strategy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“efforts fell below an 'objective standard of reasonableness ... under prevailing professional norms.'”
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.