United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 835 · 1990
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Darden v. Wainwright
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellant may not attempt to build a new record on appeal with evidence that was never admitted in the court below.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant's attacks on his trial counsel's performance are guided by the perfect vision of hindsight and amount to an exercise in second-guessing trial strategy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unusual that the record is devoid of information showing who wrote the information in the exhibit, who transmitted the discrete piece of information in the exhibit, and when such information was transmitted.”
2 later decisions 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.