Lilly v. Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 783 · 1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. McGuire (1997), Bullock v. Carver (2002)
43 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Agurs · Edwards v. Arizona · Chambers v. Mississippi
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Sixth Amendment does not require counsel to forecast changes or advances in the law, or to press meritless arguments before a court.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rule applied infrequently, unexpectedly, or freakishly may not constitute an independent and adequate state ground”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“identifying specific acts or omissions that fell outside the range of professionally competent assistance.”
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.