State v. Bruton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Prevatte (2002), State v. Phillips (2011)
3 federal appellate · 54 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 · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · Wood v. Georgia
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o establish a conflict of interest violation of the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel, a [juvenile] who raised no objection at trial must demonstrate that an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Relevant evidence' means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. The right to effective assistance of counsel includes the right to representation that is free from conflicts of interest.”
2 later decisions 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.