Sullivan v. Fairman’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 1382 · 1987
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 7 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Mealy (1988), 26 Conn. App. 758 - Ostolaza v. Warden (1992)
51 federal appellate · 7 district · 13 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 · Lawrence v. United States · Bailey v. Butcher · Gibson v. United States
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]rial counsel [need not] track down every lead or ... personally investigate every evidentiary possibility before choosing a defense and developing it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, we expect that few petitioners will be able to pass through the 'eye of the needle' created by Strickland.”
4 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.