Robert Allen Gaines v. Joe S. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 1147 · 1978
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Washington v. Strickland (1982)
50 federal appellate · 6 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 Page v. Work · MacKenna v. Ellis · Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Fitzgerald v. Estelle · Hayward v. Johnson
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Informed evaluation of potential defenses to criminal charges and meaningful discussion with one's client of the realities of his case are cornerstones of effective assistance of counsel.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not errorless counsel, and not counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spivey v. Zant“in no better position than his jailed client to evaluate the legal and factual realities of the case ....”
1 later decision 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.