Lopez v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.3d 339 · 2005
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably People v. Ligon (2010), Maynard v. Boone (2006)
15 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2254 · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because a defendant is entitled to effective assistance of counsel on direct appeal, such an individual must be accorded effective assistance of counsel throughout all phases of that stage of the criminal proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Without a right to counsel, [a defendant] also has no commensurate right to effective assistance from that counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“final by the conclusion of direct review,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Summers v. Schriro
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.