Bailey v. Cowley’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 1438 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Duvall v. Reynolds (1998), Hardiman v. Reynolds (1992)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Maleng v. Cook · Granberry v. Greer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant pleads guilty, he makes a decision based on a calculated risk that the consequences that will flow from entering the guilty plea will be more favorable than those that would flow from going to trial. This inherent uncertainty does not make the plea involuntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ballard v. Kaiser · Bush v. Neet W“assumes the risk of ordinary error in either his or his attorney's assessment of the law and facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Neet W“within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alim v. Cowley Alim
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.