McQueen v. Swenson’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 959 · 1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1994
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Chapman v. State of California · Stone v. Powell · Beasley v. United States · Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden · United States v. Easter
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the only factual conclusion that can be drawn from the [evidentiary] hearing is that attorney Brown’s sole preparation for the defense of a client charged with first-degree murder was to interview the defendant himself.. . . [W]e hold the lack of pretrial investigation amounts to ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]etitioner's proof of prejudice should not be defeated by the district court's low opinion of the credibility of relevant and admissible testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.