Gutierrez v. Moriarty’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 1464 · 1991
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), John Joseph Romano v. Gary Gibson Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (2001)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 · Barker v. Wingo · Wainwright v. Sykes · Roviaro v. United States · Solem v. Helm
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Preindictment delay rises to a constitutional violation when the defense is substantially prejudiced by the delay and the reasons for the prosecutor's delay are improper.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he availability of parole is relevant to determining whether the length of a sentence violates the Eighth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Length of delay, the reason for the delay, the defendant's assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant.”
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.