People v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 5 Cal. 4th 877 - People v. Montiel (1993), 232 Cal. App. 3d 553 - San Bernardino County Department of Public Social Services v. Servando M. (1991)
29 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Mendenhall · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Dunaway v. New York · Bourjaily 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he relationship here between defense counsel and defendant's wife deprived defendant of his constitutional right to the `undivided loyalty and effort' of his attorney. [citation omitted] The validity of our adversarial system depends upon the guaranty of this `undivided loyalty and effort' for every criminal defendant. Given the instant facts [the sexual relationship between defendant's counsel and defendant's wife], a defense attorney, in the extreme, might be influenced to see his client convicted and imprisoned so that the affair can continue or remain undiscovered."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Given an undisclosed affair between the defendant's wife and his attorney, the professional attorney-client relationship becomes tainted and interwoven with a romantic relationship. Strategic case decisions may have been made by defense counsel to ... conceal the existence of the affair at defendant's expense. Either way a defendant is prejudiced by failing to have counsel unencumbered by potential divided loyalties. `It is important [not only that] (sic) there is in fact fairness in the judicial system but that the appearance of fairness to the accused be maintained in order to sustain public confidence in the system.'" [emphasis supplied] [citation omitted]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"There appears to be no direct precedent holding that an affair with a client's spouse raises a conflict of interest. However, such a conclusion is inescapable."”
2 later decisions 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.