Summit v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 1237 · 1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2016
2 federal appellate · 6 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Doyle v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no reasonable probability that [action by counsel] could have effectively weakened the incriminating power of the evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Lynaugh
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.