MacKenna v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.2d 592 · 1960
Citation profile
263 federal appellate · 3 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 511 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Saferian (1974), Hernandez v. State (1986)
263 federal appellate · 3 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Rochin v. People of California · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret
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 511 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
82 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is basic to due process that an accused person have a fair opportunity to tell his story in a fair trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trial judge who appoints fledgeling attorneys as defense counsel, over the defendant’s protest, cannot wash his hands of their mistakes.”
2 later decisions 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.