Bransford v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 83 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1989), Ortiz-Salas v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1993)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Anderson v. Harless
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Instead, in order to demonstrate denial of a fair appeal, petitioner must show prejudice resulting from the missing transcripts. Although this court recognizes the difficulty in demonstrating prejudice where the transcripts are missing, petitioner must present something more than gross speculation that the transcripts were requisite to a fair appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n order to demonstrate denial of a fair appeal, petitioner must show prejudice resulting from the missing transcripts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.