Thompson v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 118 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2010
11 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Pate v. Robinson · Tollett v. Henderson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“positively, unequivocally and clearly generate a real, substantial and legitimate doubt as to [his] mental capacity ... to knowingly plead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flugence v. Butler“[t]he burden imposed upon a habeas petitioner to demonstrate incompetency in fact at the time of trial is extremely heavy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flugence v. Butler
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.