Mason v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 887 · 1996
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Flores (2011), United States v. Wagner (1996)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · Estelle v. McGuire · Stone v. Powell · Lockhart v. Fretwell
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may have resulted in a reversal of the conviction, or an order for a new trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]nly when ignored issues are clearly stronger than those presented, will the presumption of effective assistance of counsel be overcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when appellate counsel omits (without legitimate strategic purpose) 'a significant and obvious issue,' we will deem his performance deficient.”
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.