Pinnell v. Cauthron’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.2d 938 · 1976
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably United States v. Decoster (1976), State v. Lee (1984)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Carafas v. J · Infelice v. United States · United States v. Easter · Kerr v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard used by this court in evaluating whether a defendant has been denied effective assistance of counsel is that trial counsel fails to render effective assistance when he does not exercise the customary skills and diligence that a reasonably competent attorney would perform under similar circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cason v. State
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.