Lee v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
499 F.2d 456 · 1974
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), O'Bryan v. Wj Estelle (1983)
21 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Tollett v. Henderson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the issues of effective assistance and voluntariness present mixed questions of law and fact, and since such questions do not fall within section 2254(d)'s presumption of correctness, the district court was under no constraint to defer to the state conclusions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reasonably effective assistance is an easier standard to meet in the context of a guilty plea than in a trial, but counsel still must render competent service ... It is the lawyer’s duty to ascertain if the plea is entered voluntarily and knowingly ... He must actually and substantially assist his client in deciding whether to plead guilty ... It is his job to provide the accused an ‘understanding of the law in relation to the facts’ ... The advice he gives need not be perfect, but it must be reasonably competent . .. His advice should permit the accused to make an informed and conscious choice ... In other words, if the quality of counsel’s service falls below a certain minimum level, the client’s guilty plea cannot be knowing and voluntary because it will not represent an informed choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McBryar v. McElroy““ . . . evaluation of an attorney’s efforts must never be made to turn solely on the ability of his newly dissatisfied client to show that the attorney might have done more than he did. A decision to plead quilty can be intelligently made on less information than would be required to prepare a trial defense. Even if the perfect vision of hindsight reveals a potentially meritorious defense in the backwaters left unexplored by an otherwise effective attorney, that alone would not dispel the voluntary nature of a decision to plead guilty.” Id. 499 F.2d at 466 . (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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