Olshen v. McMann’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.2d 993 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably United States v. Bynum (1973), United States v. Jeffers (1975)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Glasser v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · United States v. Hayman · McDonald v. United States · Campbell v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here, as here, the possible conflict arises from a prior representation of a prosecution witness, the primary, if not the only, factor which might deter counsel from staging an effective defense would be his reluctance to divulge or to make use of the knowledge derived from the confidential communications of his former client. . . . [A]ny inference of prejudice ... is forcefully negated by [counsel’s] vigorous cross-examination of [his former client] and his exhaustive attack on [that client’s] credibility-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the only available clue that there might be a conflict would be counsel's conspicuously inadequate or passive cross-examination of his former client.”
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.