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Wallace v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

362 F.3d 914 · 2004

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
January 2013
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Appellate journey

Relationships

Relies on Faretta v. California · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio

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

  1. “A good lawyer tries to persuade the accused to make a wise decision about . . . presenting a defense, even though the ultimate decision rests with the client, and wretched advice that leads the accused to make a bad decision is a form of ineffective assistance. The accused is entitled to the information essential to make an educated choice.”
    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.