Wilfong v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions

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

1. ““In considering the question whether a petitioner has been! accorded his constitutional right to the effective assistance of I counsel at every stage in the proceedings against him, we have! never found it necessary to decide precisely whether absence! of counsel when sentence is imposed in and of itself amounted! to a denial of that constitutional guaranty. We have stated,| however, that ‘an accused should have an opportunity to be heard by counsel on the sentence to be imposed and that court should not impose sentence in the absence of counsel without expressly ascertaining that a defendant does not desire his presence. . . .’ This for the reason that ‘many considerations influence the length of a sentence which is to be imposed, and a defendant should have the opportunity to have his attorney present any mitigating circumstances to the court,for its consideration in determining the-weight of the sentence,’””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ruiz Soto v. Rivera