Ennis v. LeFevre’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 1072 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Tutino (1989), Lugo v. Munoz (1982)
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Anders v. California · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decisions concerning which legal issues will be urged on appeal are uniquely within the lawyer's skill and competence, and their resolution is ultimately left to his judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“if a serious (one), may perhaps not be left entirely to the lawyer's decision”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Barnes v. Jones
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.