Harris v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 871 · 1990
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Woods v. State (1998), United States Simmons v. Gramley (1990)
61 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Michigan v. Long · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Harris v. Reed · Johnson v. Mississippi
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmatively establish that counsel's performance was both constitutionally deficient and that the deficiency prejudiced the outcome of the trial.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within a wide range of reasonable professional assistance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[j]ust as a reviewing court should not second guess the strategic decisions of counsel with the benefit of hindsight, it should also not construct strategic defenses which counsel does not offer.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.