United States v. Peak’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 39 · 1993
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lantzy (1999), United States v. Poindexter (2007)
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Douglas v. People of State of California · Doerr v. Doerr
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deprives the defendant of his Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel, notwithstanding that the lost appeal may not have had a reasonable probability of success.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Persons convicted in federal district courts have a right to a direct appeal. Coppedge v. United States, 369 U.S. 438 , 82 S.Ct. 917 , 8 L.Ed.2d 21 (1962). In addition, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel extends to the direct appeal, Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353 , 83 S.Ct. 814 , 9 L.Ed.2d 811 (1963), and it obligates the attorney to file the appeal and identify possible issues for the court even if, in the attorney’s opinion, those issues are not meritorious. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 , 87 S.Ct. 1396 , 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ctual or constructive denial of the assistance of counsel altogether.”
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.