Spriggs v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 85 · 1993
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Glover v. United States (2001), United States v. Kissick (1995)
45 federal appellate · 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 · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Woodson v. North Carolina · Mempa v. Rhay · Burger v. Kemp
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court must determine whether there is a reasonable probability that but for trial counsel's errors the defendant's non-capital sentence would have been significantly less harsh.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one foreseeable exception to this requirement would be when a deficiency by counsel resulted in a specific, demonstrable enhancement in sentencing--such as an automatic increase for a 'career' offender.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Arguably, when the discretionary sentencing range is great, practically any error committed by counsel could have resulted in a harsher sentence, even if only by a year or two.”
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.