Gilbert v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 1065 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Dulin v. Cook (1992), Thompson v. Champion (1993)
23 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cause for the default and actual prejudice as a result of the alleged violation of federal law, or demonstrate[s] that failure to consider the claims will result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extraordinary instances when a constitutional violation probably has caused the conviction of one innocent of the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
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.