Scott v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 427 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Cox v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co. (1986), McMillan v. Barksdale (1987)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 · McMann v. Richardson · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Tollett v. Henderson · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel's advice need not be errorless, and need not involve every conceivable defense, no matter how peripheral to the normal focus of counsel's inquiry, but it must be within the realm of competence demanded of attorneys representing criminal defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynd v. Terry · Stano v. Dugger“[t]he guilty plea cannot have been knowing and voluntary, however, if a defendant does not receive reasonably effective assistance of counsel in connection with the decision to plead guilty, because the plea does not then represent an informed choice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. P Ford · Finch v. Vaughn“[c]ounsel must be familiar with the facts and the law in order to advise the defendant of the options available.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynd v. Terry · Finch v. Vaughn
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.