Sharp v. Puckett’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 450 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably United States v. Flores (2011), Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992)
8 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Chapman v. State of California · Penson v. Ohio · Jones v. Barnes
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.
“'The [petitioner] must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the [appeal] would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodwin 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.