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Gary Leroy Profitt v. George R. Waldron, Warden’s Empirical Analysis

831 F.2d 1245 · 1987

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
4
states following
June 2023
most recently cited

31 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Neal v. Puckett (2002), Green v. Johnson (1997)

31 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions

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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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Beavers v. Balkcom · Felde v. Blackburn

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “must not be watered down into a disguised form of acquiescence.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Parmer v. State · Bouchillon v. Collins
  2. “Judges wisely defer to true tactical choices — that is to say, to choices between alternatives that each have the potential for both benefit and loss. We are in a poor position to judge, on the cold record, the quality of such a choice, made as it is in the fine-grained texture and nuance of the particular proceeding.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Townes · Wilcoxson v. State
  3. “a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Vincent M. Umtuch · United States v. James Edward Wagner, James Edward Wagner v. United States

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.