Ewing v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 391 · 1979
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Baumann v. United States (1982)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Holloway v. Arkansas · Geders v. United States · Anderson v. Alabama
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The touchstone here, as in all cases where ineffective assistance of counsel is alleged, is a fair trial. Where no single error or omission of counsel, standing alone, significantly impairs the defense, the district court may nonetheless find unfairness-and thus prejudice-emanating from the totality of counsel’s errors and omissions.” (italics added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d)efense counsel's errors or omissions ... reflect a failure to exercise the skill, judgment, or diligence of a reasonably competent criminal defense attorney they must be errors a reasonably competent attorney acting as a diligent conscientious advocate would not have made, for that is the constitutional standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel rests upon specific acts or omissions of counsel at trial, ... relief will be granted only if it appears that the defendant was prejudiced by counsel's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Satchell v. Cardwell
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.