Beckham v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
639 F.2d 262 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Lafler v. Cooper (2012), Lafler v. Cooper (2012)
29 federal appellate · 12 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brady v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan · McMann v. Richardson
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n erroneous estimate by counsel as to the length of sentence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessarily indicative of ineffective assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Petitioner be allowed to reinstate his original guilty plea and thereupon be resentenced by the Court or alternatively that he be granted a new trial within a reasonable period of time hereafter, failure of which the Writ of Habeas Corpus will be granted and the Petitioner released from custody.”
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.