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Jernigan v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

980 F.2d 292 · 1992

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
August 2018
most recently cited

10 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Abbott v. Equity Group, Inc. (1993), Rector v. Johnson (1997)

10 federal appellate ·

180199220002010decided

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 · Townsend v. Sain · McCleskey v. Zant · Sumner v. Mata · Penry v. Lynaugh

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “cannot show that the absence of a federal evidentiary hearing has resulted in a fundamental miscarriage of justice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel's efforts' to develop the evidence;”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “must demonstrate, by a preponderance of the evidence, that his counsel was ineffective.”
    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.