Beets v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.3d 1258 · 1995
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Mickens v. Taylor (2002), United States v. Infante (2005)
48 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 19 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Murray v. Carrier
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`all kinds of alleged attorney ethical conflicts,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... Strickland more appropriately gauges an attorney's conflict of interest that springs not from multiple client representation but from a conflict between the attorney's personal interest and that of his client.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel can properly turn in no direction. He must fail one or do nothing and fail both. An attorney cannot properly serve two masters.”
4 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.