Adams v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
688 F.2d 734 · 1982
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Blake v. Kemp (1985), United States v. Burris (1985)
40 federal appellate · 3 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Geders v. United States · Herring v. New York
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wiley v. Wainwright“every path until it bears fruit or until all conceivable hope withers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the totality of the circumstances in the entire record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vela v. Wj Estelle
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.