Linton v. Perini’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 207 · 1981
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Morris v. Slappy (1983), United States v. Gallo (1985)
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 18 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
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Holloway v. Arkansas · Ungar v. Sarafite
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.
“a trial court, acting in the name of calendar control, cannot arbitrarily and unreasonably interfere with a client's right”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]asic trust between counsel and defendant is the cornerstone of the adversary system and effective assistance of counsel.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a substantial risk [arises] that the basic trust between counsel and client, which is a cornerstone of the adversary system, would be undercut.”
5 later decisions 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.