United States Ex Rel. James A. Walker v. Robert J. Henderson, Superintendent of Auburn Correctional Facility,respondent-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.2d 1311 · 1974
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. McNulty (1978), United States v. Tranakos (1990)
19 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Ewell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Bornstein v. United States · United States v. Wight
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . unless the purported representation by counsel was such as to make the trial a farce and a mockery of justice, mere allegations of incompetency or inefficiency of counsel will not ordinarily suffice as grounds for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus “A lack of effective assistance of counsel must be of such a kind as to shock the conscience of the Court and make the proceedings a farce and mockery of justice.” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephens v. LeFevre“the decision to call or bypass particular witnesses is peculiarly a question of trial strategy which courts will practically never second-guess”
1 later decision 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.