Preston v. Superintendent Graterford SCI’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.3d 365 · 2018
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2022
5 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Pennsylvania Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Slack v. McDaniel · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Crawford v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson
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.
“with a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly substandard under the first prong of Strickland , we need not concern ourselves with the prejudice prong of Strickland in order to satisfy Martinez and excuse the procedural default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“remain mindful that the 'substantiality' inquiry 'does not require full consideration of the factual or legal bases adduced in support of the claims.'”
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.