United States v. Span’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 1383 · 1996
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Desta v. Ashcroft (2004), Silva v. Woodford (2002)
82 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Feola · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty.
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong presumption that counsel's conduct f[ell] within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts relevant to plausible options.”
4 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.