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Tippins v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

77 F.3d 682 · 1996

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
6
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Martin Daniel Appel v. Martin Horn Commissioner Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001), Burdine v. Johnson (2001)

29 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

420199620002010decided

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 · United States v. Cronic · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers

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

  1. “that Tippins suffered prejudice, by presumption or otherwise, if his counsel was repeatedly unconscious at trial for periods of time in which defendant's interests were at stake”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Kaid · 102 F. Supp. 2d 392 - Morse v. Trippett
  2. “Ordinarily, episodes of inattention or slumber are perfectly amenable to analysis under the Strickland prejudice test.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Calvin Jerold Burdine v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division · Burdine v. Johnson
  3. “'inherent' at some point, 'because unconscious or sleeping counsel is equivalent to no counsel at all'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Calvin Jerold Burdine v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division · Burdine v. Johnson

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.