Austin v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Van Alstine v. State (1993), 232 Ga. App. 330 - In the Interest of A. H. P. (1998)
51 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Hawes v. State · Pitts v. Glass · Durham v. State
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The decisions on which witnesses to call, whether and how to conduct cross examinations, . . . and all other strategies and tactical decisions are the exclusive province of the lawyer after consultation with his client.’ [Cits.]” [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as applicable to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, guarantees criminal defendants effective assistance of counsel. [Cits.] However, the constitutional right to assistance of counsel insures “not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.” [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Alstine v. State“may have been wise or unwise, [it did] not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luallen v. State
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.