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893 F.3d 811 · 2018

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Olano · United States v. Bagley

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

  1. “[fall] below an objective standard of reasonableness.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “when the government introduces false or misleading testimony or allows it to go uncorrected, even though the government knew or should have known that the testimony was false.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “never held that any claim of ineffective assistance of counsel ... automatically entitles a party to an evidentiary remand.”
    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.