Mason v. Balcom’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 717 · 1976
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Washington v. Strickland (1982)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · McCarthy v. United States
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he obligation of the federal judge is the opposite: to apply the proper federal constitutional standards based on the underlying facts, although the conclusions drawn from the facts may differ from the state court's conclusions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any case, the District Court was not required to strain to transform this credibility choice into a set of findings of fact binding upon it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.