Claudio v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 798 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Mayo v. Henderson (1994), Billy-Eko v. United States (1993)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Wade · Coleman v. Thompson · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Cronic
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Strickland addressed the constitutional standard for ineffective assistance of counsel in the trial counsel context, our Circuit has also adopted the Strickland two-prong test in assessing the effectiveness of appellate counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not decide the content of appropriate standards for judging claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. Cf. Strickland ... [citation omitted].” Evitts, 469 U.S. at 392 , 105 S.Ct. 830 . At least one judge has noted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
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.