Fink v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 204 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2016
9 federal appellate · 4 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 · United States v. Cronic · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Baskett v. United States · Robnett 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“below an objective standard of reasonableness and was outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Armontrout“if counsel entirely fails to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nielsen v. Hopkins
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.