Smith v. Puckett’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 581 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. Wilkes (1994), Reese v. Fulcomer (1991)
10 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Wade · Manson v. Brathwaite · Gilbert v. California · United States v. Ash
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether potential substantial prejudice inheres in the particular confrontation and the ability of counsel to help avoid that prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel is not deficient for, and prejudice does not issue from, failure to raise a legally meritless claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to counsel at all stages of the proceedings is not absolute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Styron v. Johnson
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.