Church v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 1501 · 1991
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 17 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Moore v. United States (1991), Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994)
41 federal appellate · 17 district · 4 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Faretta v. California · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a specific and seemingly valid or genuine alternative strategy was available to defense counsel, but it was inherently in conflict with his duties to others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“but made no express findings, it may still be possible for the [federal court] to reconstruct the findings of the state trier of fact, either because his view of the facts is plain from his opinion or because of other indicia”); Church v. Sullivan, 942 F.2d 1501 , 1516 (10th Cir. 1991) (holding that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellis v. Raemisch“[s]tate court findings relating to juror bias 'are factual determinations to which the presumption of correctness under 28 U.S.C.A. Section apply, although the constitutional standard of jury impartiality is a question of law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Shanks
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.