United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 1154 · 1974
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1974)
146 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on McMann v. Richardson · McGautha v. California · Davis v. Alaska · Romano v. United States · Keeble v. United States
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether, taking the view most favorable to the government, reasonable minds could conclude that the evidence is inconsistent with any (reasonable) hypothesis of the accused's innocence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has long interpreted 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. We consider undivided loyalty of appointed counsel to client as essential to due process. (Emphasis in original)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A mere showing of some prejudice has usually been insufficient, for qualitatively it must be the most compelling prejudice against which the trial court will be unable to afford protection.”
2 later decisions 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.