Gray v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.2d 350 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2008
8 federal appellate · 8 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. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Jones v. Barnes · Evitts v. Lucey · United States v. Harris
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e emphasize that the right to effective assistance of appellate counsel does not require an attorney to advance every conceivable argument on appeal which the trial record supports.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is advanced only to satisfy the cause requirement of Wainwright, however, counsel need not have been so ineffective as to violate the constitution. See Clay v. Director Juvenile Div. Dept. of Corr. 749 F.2d 427 , 433 n. 4 (7th Cir. 1984). To show cause for failure to raise an issue on direct appeal, petitioner need only show that such failure resulted from the ignorance or inadvertence of appellate counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with instructions to review the trial court record and determine whether the issues which petitioner claims appellate counsel failed to raise, would have been clearly more likely to result in reversal or an order for a new trial, and were so obvious from the trial record that the failure to present such issues amounted to ineffective assistance of appellate counsel.”
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.