Fitzgerald v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
943 F.2d 463 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Cardwell v. Greene (1998), Barnes v. Thompson (1995)
9 federal appellate · 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 · Coleman v. Thompson · United States v. Agurs · Sandstrom v. Montana · Harris v. Reed
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether Powell has established that there is a reasonable probability that but for trial counsel's errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different, this Court must consider the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For purposes of impeachment, the difference between one felony conviction and two or three convictions is not critical. In either case, the jury would be on notice that [the witness] was a convicted felon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ttempts by petitioners to transform claims whose underlying merits have been defaulted into questions of ineffective assistance of counsel require analysis under the more stringent Strickland standard.”). Orbe has done precisely this for all of his defaulted claims. 15 . Orbe’s counsel, the only witness to the prosecutor's statement, confirms her affidavit regarding the timing of the statement, and, in a second affidavit, makes clear that he did not think at the time that the prosecutor’s statement was”
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.