Lynn v. Bliden’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “The benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel’s conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result. A convicted defendant’s claim that counsel’s assistance was so defective as to require reversal of a conviction ... has two components. First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as “counsel” guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction ... resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rosario v. Ercole · 613 F. Supp. 2d 330 - Dixon v. Conway

2. “An application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings unless the adjudication of the claim (1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Graham v. Lape · 507 F. Supp. 2d 342 - Washington v. Poole

3. “[I]n light of the Strickland principle that an ineffective assistance claim is established if the court concludes that there is a reasonable probability that but for counsel’s professional deficient performance the outcome of the proceeding would have been different, we find it difficult to view so much of the New York rule as holds that “whether defendant would have been acquitted of the charges but for counsel’s errors is ... not dispositive,” as not “contrary to” the prejudice standard established by Strickland .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rosario v. Ercole