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Phillips v. White’s Empirical Analysis

851 F.3d 567 · 2017

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
4
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Cronic · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Bell Warden v. Cone

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

  1. “For Cronic prejudice to apply, petitioner must be deprived of counsel during a critical stage of trial, such as sentencing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “AEDPA's deferential standard is inapplicable to [the petitioner]'s claim because no state court ever decided it”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “performance amounted to nonperformance; he essentially ceded the sentencing to the Commonwealth”
    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.