John C. Rastrom v. Allan L. Robbins, Warden, Maine State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 1251 · 1971
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Saferian (1974), United States v. Fisher (1973)
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Chambers v. Maroney · Ungar v. Sarafite · Avery v. State of Alabama · Kennedy v. Powell
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Final resolution of claims that a defendant was denied effective assistance by late appointment of counsel is necessarily made on an ad hoc basis. Rastrom v. Robbins, 440 F.2d 1251, 1252-1253 (1st Cir. 1971) (granting writ of habeas corpus).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But when a case of this nature demands prompt resolution, the court must consider counsel’s experience and, where experience is absent or minimal, either grant, if requested, a continuance or appoint more experienced counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McLaughlin““ . . . the necessity for expedition in the progress of litigation and the requirement of fairness to litigants and their counsel.” (Rastrom v. Robbins, supra, at p. 1252 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Simmonds
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.