Hopkinson v. Shillinger’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1286 · 1989
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Sawyer v. Smith (1990), United States v. Galloway (1995)
40 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a holding that a claim is so novel that there is no reasonably available basis for it, thus establishing cause, must also mean that the claim was too novel to be dictated by past precedent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Caldwell claims fall within the second exception in Teague, regardless of how the exception may finally be defined”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Clark v. Dugger“substantial possibility that the prosecutor's statements, taken in context, affected the sentencing decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.