Festo v. Luckart’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Phillips v. Warden (1991), State v. Crespo (1998)
76 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 Glasser v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Jones v. Barnes · Holloway v. Arkansas · Wood v. Georgia
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as when one defendant stands to gain significantly by counsel adducing probative evidence or advancing plausible arguments that are damaging to the cause of a codefendant whom counsel is also representing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In the absence of an affirmative duty by the trial court to inquire ... a defendant who raised no objection at trial must demonstrate that an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance in order to obtain reversal of his conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Moreover, one of the principal safeguards of this right is the rule . . . that a trial court must explore the possibility of conflict when it knows or reasonably should know of a conflict.”
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.