Rubin v. Gee J’s Empirical Analysis
292 F.3d 396 · 2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022
9 federal appellate · 5 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 Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · Williams v. Taylor · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involved two attorneys who in the aftermath of a crime schooled their client [Rubin] in the tactics of evasion in order to guarantee their own fee. Then to avoid criminal indictment and keep their conduct from coming to light, the attorneys took cover as part of the defense team. While the prosecution harped at trial on Rubin’s actions immediately following the crime, the attorneys could not be called as fact witnesses and then-role in directing Rubin’s actions was never explained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prejudice will be presumed and the defendant need not demonstrate a reasonable probability that, but for the attorney’s conflict of interest, the trial's outcome would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has never indicated that Sullivan would not apply to a conflict as severe as the one presented here.”
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.