Jones v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Especially striking is the petitioner's assertion that the court-appointed lawyer, after the most superficial contact with the case and without making inquiry into the circumstances, counselled surrender because the defendant had given a confession — a confession allegedly made under stress and coercion. No legal representation is worthy of the name if the lawyer makes no investigation of the background of the client's plea * * * or of the extra-judicial confession which induced the plea.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bell v. Alabama

2. “interrogated constantly by the authorities in a coercive manner and denied medical attention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Cunningham

3. “an empty gesture and not a true satisfaction of the defendant's constitutional rights.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Cunningham