Bobby v. Van Hook’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

241 federal appellate · 14 district · 143 state decisions

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 584 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I join the Court’s per curiam opinion but emphasize my understanding that the opinion in no way suggests that the American Bar Association’s Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (rev. ed. 2003) (2003 Guidelines or ABA Guidelines) have special relevance in determining whether an attorney’s performance meets the standard required by the Sixth Amendment. The ABA is a venerable organization with a history of service to the bar, but it is, after all, a private group with limited membership. The views of the association’s members, not to mention the views of the members of the advisory committee that formulated the 2003 Guidelines, do not necessarily reflect the views of the American bar as a whole. It is the responsibility of the courts to determine the nature of the work that a defense attorney must do in a capital case in order to meet the obligations imposed by the Constitution, and I see no reason why the ABA Guidelines should be given a privileged position in making that determination.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hooks v. Workman · Commonwealth v. Spotz

2. “Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Froman