Gray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.2d 467 · 1962
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Williams v. Beto (1965), Smith v. United States (1963)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 United States v. Bertone
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The charge of ineffective assistance is so often leveled at appointed counsel by convicted defendants that many lawyers dislike to accept assignments in behalf of indigents. Such a charge should not be sustained unless it very clearly appears to be well grounded. Here, the charge of ineffective assistance bordered on the frivolous.” Gray v. United States, 112 U.S.App.D.C. 86 , 299 F.2d 467 , 468 (1962).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as an assignment of error in the appeal from the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In the Matter of Egc
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.