United States v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 601 · 1962
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Williams v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co.
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.
““But the constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel does not vest in the accused the right to the services of an attorney who meets any specified aptitude test in point of professional skill. And common mistakes of judgment on the part of counsel, common mistakes of strategy, common mistakes of trial tactics, or common errors of policy in the course of a criminal case do not constitute grounds for collateral attack upon the judgment and sentence by motion under the statute. It is instances in which resulting in the substandard level of the services of the attorney the trial becomes mockery and farcical that the judgment is open to collateral attack on the grounds that the accused was deprived of his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where defendant was powerless to assert his right because of imprisonment, ignorance and lack of legal advice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the defendant had no knowledge of the pending charge”
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.