Alcorn v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 58 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Lott v. Coyle (2001), Paprocki v. Foltz (1989)
13 federal appellate ·
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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Frady · Stone v. Powell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here [there] is strong evidence of a petitioner's guilt and a lack of evidence for his claim, the actual prejudice requirement is not satisfied.... Actual prejudice must work to the convicted person's 'actual and substantial disadvantage, infesting his entire trial with error of constitutional dimensions.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Craft v. Evitts“at least as well as a lawyer with ordinary training and skill in the criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Craft v. Evitts
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.