United States v. Decoster’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 196 · 1976
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 6 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), United States v. Cronic (1984)
105 federal appellate · 6 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3148 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anders v. California · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A determination whether any given action or omission by counsel amounted to ineffective assistance cannot be divorced from consideration of the peculiar facts and circumstances that influenced counsel's judgment...." United States v. Decoster, 624 F.2d 196 at 203 (D.C., 1976).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burrell · Schrier v. State“To be `below average' is not enough, for that is self evidently the case half the time. The standard of shortfall is necessarily subjective, but it cannot be established merely by showing that counsel's acts or omissions deviated from a checklist of standards.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the conviction cannot survive unless the government demonstrates that it is not tainted by the deficiency, and that in fact no prejudice resulted”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.