Richard Sanchez v. Louis S. Nelson, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 849 · 1971
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2003
15 federal appellate · 4 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 Robinson v. State of California · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Turner v. Louisiana · Peek v. United States · Linden v. Dickson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [I]n deciding whether or not joint representation deprived one or both defendants of effective counsel, the appropriate inquiries are: Did the representation deprive either or both of the defendants of the undivided loyalty of counsel? Did counsel have to, or did he in fact, ‘slight the defense of one defendant for that of another’? (Citing cases.)” (p. 850.)”
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.