Passmore v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 662 · 1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Estelle v. Passmore (1980), Passmore v. State (1981)
7 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 Anders v. California · Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Fitzgerald v. Estelle
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can hardly be said to reflect the 'role of an active advocate in behalf of his clients.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“state appellate courts must now review all briefs as to the competency and adequacy of the representation afforded by retained (or appointed) counsel in order to foreclose claims of incompetency of counsel or inadequacy of representation at the appellate level”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Morrow v. Wyrick
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.