46 Cal. 3d 161 - In Re Cordero’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 577 - People v. Hayes (1990), 46 Cal. 3d 612 - People v. Karis (1988)
6 federal appellate · 101 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 Strickland v. Washington · Griffin v. California · United States v. Cronic · 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope · 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In evaluating defendant's showing [a court accords] great deference to the tactical decisions of trial counsel in order to avoid `second-guessing counsel's tactics and chilling vigorous advocacy by tempting counsel "to defend himself or herself against a claim of ineffective assistance after trial rather than to defend his or her client against criminal charges at trial....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`However, "deferential scrutiny of counsel's performance is limited in extent and indeed in certain cases may be altogether unjustified. `[D]eference is not abdication' [citation]; it must never be used to insulate counsel's performance from meaningful scrutiny and thereby automatically validate challenged acts or omissions.”
1 later decision 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.