Holbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably State v. Caffey (1970), McQueen v. State (1971)
28 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 Phillips Chemical Co. v. Dumas Independent School District · Porter v. United States · O'Malley v. United States · State v. Holbert · Kennedy 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. These cases clearly imply that willful (but not necessarily negligent) misconduct by an employed attorney without defendant’s knowledge which amounts to a breach of the legal duty of an attorney to his client, can in some circumstances constitute an infringement of an accused’s federally protected right to effective representation by counsel in a criminal proceeding.”
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.