Bonin v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 9 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (1993), Tuilaepa v. California (1994)
72 federal appellate · 9 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right to counsel's undivided loyalty is a critical component of the right to assistance of counsel; when counsel is burdened by a conflict of interest, he deprives his client of his Sixth Amendment right as surely as if he failed to appear at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Supreme Court has recognized that the right to counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment includes the `right to representation that is free from conflicts of interest.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.