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← 143 CONNAPP 216 - State v. Figueroa

State v. Figueroa’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Mickens v. Taylor · Wrenn v. McFadden · Lawson v. Credithrift of America · Harrison v. United States

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The purpose of the court's inquiry ... is to determine whether there is an actual or potential conflict, and, if there is an actual conflict , to inquire whether the defendant chooses to waive the conflict or whether the attorney must withdraw.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “This obligation arises not only when there has been a timely conflict objection at trial, but also when the trial court knows or reasonably should know that a particular conflict exists.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.