Dyer v. Crisp’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 275 · 1980
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 12 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably Osborn v. Shillinger (1988), State v. Gonzales (1992)
83 federal appellate · 12 district · 19 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · McMann v. Richardson · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. Bravman
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Sixth Amendment demands that defense counsel exercise the skill, judgment and diligence of a reasonably competent defense attorney.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Rjelief upon the ground of ineffective counsel will be granted only when the trial is a farce or mockery of justice, or is shocking to the conscience of the reviewing court, or the purported representation was only perfunctory, in bad faith, a sham, a pretense, or without adequate opportunity for conference and preparation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State“the representation received fell below the minimum standard of reasonable skill and competence expected of a defense attorney in a criminal 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.