Donna Austin v. Don R. Erickson, Warden of the South Dakota Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 620 · 1973
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1998 · most notably Holloway v. Arkansas (1978), William Foxworth v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections (1975)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Patton v. United States · Local Union No. 12 v. National Labor Relations Board · Johnson v. United States · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Whitling v. Russell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No attorney should be placed in a position of divided loyalty ‘where he may be required to choose between conflicting duties or to be led to an attempt to reconcile conflicting interests rather than to enforce, to their full extent, the rights of the party whom he should alone represent.’ . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It must be remembered that in cases involving conflicts of interest, the conflict does not always appear fullblown upon the record, since counsel may throughout endeavor to reconcile the conflict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Once the actual conflict had been established which affected her own right to counsel’s effective assistance, Austin had met her burden.””
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.