Burston v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
506 F.2d 24 · 1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Decoster (1976), William Foxworth v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections (1975)
29 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Mapp v. Ohio · Linkletter v. Walker · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Page v. Work
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are 'left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Maggio
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.