Hobbs v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 1079 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Drinkard v. Johnson (1996), Alford v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. (1992)
53 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Sumner v. Mata · Galtieri v. Wainwright · Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“guilty plea ... was voluntarily entered by a defendant who understood the nature of the charges and consequences of the plea....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Micheaux v. Collins“[o]n federal habeas review, it suffices if a defendant is informed of the maximum term of imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Micheaux v. Collins“[i]n accordance with the long-standing rule in this circuit, th[is] issue[ ] [is] deemed abandoned.”
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.