Ex Parte Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1974
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on MacKenna v. Ellis · Ex Parte Young · Vessels v. State · Fletcher v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We interpret the right to counsel as the right to effective counsel. We interpret counsel to mean not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Gallegos
How this case has been treated — in progress
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