Gardner v. Ponte’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 183 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably United States v. Swanson (1991), Scarpa v. Dubois (1994)
20 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady · United States v. Cronic
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the] court must start with the ‘strong presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.’ Strickland v. Washington, [ 466 U.S. 668, 689 , 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2065 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984) ]. The petitioner bears the burden of proving that specific acts or omissions of counsel are outside the range of professionally competent assistance. Id. at 687 [ 104 S.Ct. at 2064 ]. He bears the further burden of showing that ‘counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.’ Id. In other words, the defendant must show that ‘there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.’ Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judicial scrutiny of counsel's performance must be highly deferential.... [A] court must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“certain particularly egregious situations,”
1 later decision 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.