United States v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 663 · 1976
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Maryland v. Marzullo (1978), Cooper v. Fitzharris (1978)
121 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on McMann v. Richardson · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Perez v. United States · MacKenna v. Ellis · United States v. DeCoster
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the customary skills and diligence that a reasonably competent attorney would perform under similar circumstances.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Whether a plea of guilty is unintelligent and therefore vulnerable when motivated by a confession erroneously thought admissible * * * depends as an initial matter, not on whether a court would retrospectively consider counsel's advice to be right or wrong, but on whether that advice was within the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases. * * * [D]efendants facing felony charges are entitled to the effective assistance of competent counsel. " (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is fundamental, we think to afford a defendant a fair trial on a criminal charge, that his counsel assert that which may be his only defense. This is particularly true when that defense has a factual basis and there is a recognized and obvious means to suppress evidence which has allegedly been illegally seized. Easter, supra, at 666 .”
2 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.