Clark v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 68 · 1992
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
May 2006
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · McCleskey v. Zant · Sumner v. Mata · Barefoot v. Estelle · Kashif v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the issues are debatable among jurists of reason, that a court could resolve the issues [in a different manner]; or that the questions are 'adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.' " The severity of the penalty in a death penalty case "is a proper consideration in determining whether to issue a certificate of probable cause, but the severity of the penalty does not in itself suffice to warrant the automatic issuing of a certificate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Collins“a substantial showing of the denial of a federal right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Collins“of a denial of a federal right means that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Collins
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.