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801 F.2d 586 · 1986

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
September 2012
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Anderson v. Butler (1988), United States v. Aguirre (1990)

15 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Rose v. Lundy · Engle v. Isaac

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “must show (1) that counsel’s performance was so deficient and counsel’s errors were so serious that he or she was not functioning as “counsel” guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment; and (2) that counsel’s deficient performance prejudiced petitioner’s defense so seriously that it “deprivefd] the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the evidence of identification ... was so strong and substantial and the alibi evidence so insubstantial”
    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.