Diggs v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 439 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Government of the Virgin Islands v. Forte (1989), State v. Roper (1991)
18 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 1291
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Benton v. Maryland · Griffith v. Kentucky · Linkletter v. Walker
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Griffith should be confined to constitutional rules of criminal procedure and thus does not require retroactive application of new procedural decisions not constitutionally grounded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not an infringement of a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooney v. Fulcomer
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.