Jenkins v. Coombe’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 158 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Penson v. Ohio (1988), Simmons v. Reynolds (1990)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Douglas v. People of State of California · Evitts v. Lucey · Robinson v. Black
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party whose counsel is unable to provide effective representation is in no better position than one who has no counsel at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simmons v. Reynolds“no counsel or, at best, nominal counsel to represent his interests on the state appeal”
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.