Ditch v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A denial of counsel at any critical stage at which the right to counsel attaches does not require a presumption of prejudice. Rather, a presumption of prejudice applies only in cases where the denial of counsel would necessarily undermine the reliability of the entire criminal proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Murphy

2. “effectively discover the case the State has against his client and make possible the preparation of a proper defense to meet that case at the trial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Patterson v. State

3. “[t]here was substantial evidence of guilt, and the jury was well-apprised of the weaknesses in [the witness's] identification testimony,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 322 Mich. App. 22 - People of Michigan v. Gary Patrick Lewis