United States v. Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · United States v. Cronic
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`would be meaningless if it did not embody a requirement that counsel be effective as well as merely present.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Krebs v. Weber · In Re KL
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.