Cofield v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 686 · 1959
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope (1979), 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas (1974)
15 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Sherman v. United States · Seelig v. United States · Ellis v. United States · Diggs v. Welch
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the circumstances surrounding the trial shocked the conscience of the court and made the proceedings a farce and a mockery of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garza v. Idaho“contemplates the conscientious service of competent counsel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.