Smith v. Ylst’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 872 · 1987
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), United States v. Swanson (1991)
48 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Davis v. Alaska · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel is a legal question reviewed de novo.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong presumption that a lawyer is competent and that presumption must be overcome with concrete evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the condition manifests itself in courtroom behavior.”
3 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.