Childs v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 67 · 1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014
5 federal appellate · 2 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Penson v. Ohio · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Maggio v. Fulford · Lumpkin v. Smith
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]riminal defense counsel need not be omniscient, and they are not always omnipotent with respect to the protection of a client's rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a petitioner can prove that the ineffective assistance of counsel denied him the right to appeal, then he need not further establish--as a prerequisite to habeas relief--that he had some chance of success on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Salazar v. Johnson“Consequently, a defendant may be held to have waived the right to appeal upon a showing that the defendant was fully informed of his appellate rights and failed to make known his desire to exercise those rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Johnson
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.