Nero v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 991 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Washington v. Strickland (1982), Stanley v. Zant (1983)
17 federal appellate · 14 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · United States v. Gray · 345 So. 2d 474 - State v. Ledet
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(s)ometimes a single error is so substantial that it alone causes the attorney's assistance to fall below the Sixth Amendment standard.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e can hardly imagine anything more prejudicial to Nero than allowing the jury in his armed robbery case to hear the prosecutor’s comments that Nero had been convicted twice before of burglary and once on drug charges. The jury may well have convicted Nero of the charged offense because it was aware of his prior convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nero's attorney stated that he was a civil attorney with very little criminal experience and at the time of trial he was not aware of Nero's right to a mistrial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Zant
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.