19 Va. App. 295 - Browning v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Goins v. Commonwealth (1996), Roach v. Commonwealth (1996)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Douglas v. People of State of California · Townsend v. Burke
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effectiveness of counsel is a separate issue from the right to counsel, although the two have often been analyzed in the same cases. “The benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel’s conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.” Stamper v. Townley, 4 Va.App. 101, 105 , 354 S.E.2d 802, 804 (1987) (quoting Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 686 , 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2055 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)). Thus, once it is determined that counsel was in fact afforded to a defendant, a separate inquiry (and one that is not considered as part of this appeal) is whether that counsel’s conduct provided reasonably effective assistance.”
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.