William Foxworth v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 1072 · 1975
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Cuyler v. Sullivan (1980), Holloway v. Arkansas (1978)
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Loper v. Beto · Pope v. Nebraska
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever one defendant stands to gain significantly by counsel adducing probative evidence or advancing plausible arguments that are damaging to the cause of a codefendant whom counsel is also representing.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fleming v. Kemp · Webb v. State“[T]he conflict occurred not in presenting the defense chosen by appointed counsel, but in selecting defenses and strategies in the first place.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alleged conflict of interest that obstructs the use of a particular strategy or defense is not significant unless the defense is plausible.”
3 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.