Gray v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 644 · 1985
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 10 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins (2000), Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992)
61 federal appellate · 10 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 · Haines v. Kerner · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Jones v. Barnes
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, only when ignored issues are clearly stronger than those presented, will the presumption of effective assistance of counsel be overcome.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an objective standard of reasonableness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is based on failure to raise issues on appeal, ... it is the exceptional case that could not be resolved on an examination of the record alone.”
2 later decisions 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.