Baty v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 391 · 1981
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Scarpa v. Dubois (1994), Washington v. Strickland (1982)
90 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Townsend v. Sain · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An actual conflict exists if counsel's introduction of probative evidence or plausible arguments that would significantly benefit one defendant would damage the defense of another defendant whom the same counsel is representing.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must demonstrate that an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Westbrook v. Zant · Burger v. Zant
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.