Creech v. Arave’s Empirical Analysis
947 F.2d 873 · 1991
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Arave v. Creech (1993), Ortiz v. Stewart (1998)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on a claim if '(1) the petitioner's allegations, if proved, would entitle him to relief, and (2) the state court trier of fact has not, after a full and fair hearing, reliably found the relevant facts.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“his attorney's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the [allegedly] deficient performance prejudiced the defense.”
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.