Root v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * (O)rdinarily, one is deprived of effective assistance of counsel only in those extreme instances where the representation is so transparently inadequate as to make a farce of the trial.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Plumley v. Coiner · Mapson v. Cox

2. ““In Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 291 U.S. 97 , 54 S.Ct. 330 , 78 L.Ed. 674 , the Supreme Court said that the presence of an accused during prosecution for a felony is a condition of due process only to the extent that a fair and just hearing would be thwarted by his absence, and that his privilege to be present in person during prosecution must have a reasonable substantial relation to fullness of opportunity to defend against the charge. We find that the absence of the appellant in this case from the court’s chambers during consideration [of] instructions bore no ‘reasonable substantial relation’ to his ‘fullness of his opportunity to defend against the charge’ for which he was on trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bradshaw v. State of Oklahoma