Turnquest v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 331 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Khoury (1990), Baty v. Balkcom (1981)
27 federal appellate · 5 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Michel v. United States · Richard Zuck v. State of Alabama · William Foxworth v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that when counsel is confronted with an actual conflict of interest, prejudice must be presumed, and except under the most extraordinary circumstances, the error cannot be considered harmless.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baty v. Balkcom · Westbrook v. Zant“A conflict of interest is present whenever one defendant stands to gain significantly by counsel adducing probative evidence or advancing plausible arguments that are damaging to the cause of a co-defendant whom counsel is also defending.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fleming v. Kemp · Tate v. State“"The decision in this case, however, does not turn on the specific prejudice shown to have been suffered by defendant, or on speculation as to whether he would have been convicted regardless of Watson's testimony. His attorney was simply blocked from making a decision in the best interest of Turnquest alone, because he was bound to consider the best interest of his other client Smith, an interest which clearly conflicted with the use of Watson's testimony."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tate v. State
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.