Parton v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 415 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2010
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Faretta v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Williams v. United States · City of St. Louis v. Thomas W. Garland, Inc. · Morrow v. Parratt
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he question is not whether [his] decision not to raise the [ineffective assistance of trial counsel] issue was correct or wise, but rather whether his decision was an unreasonable one which only an incompetent attorney would adopt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stokes v. Armontrout“failed to exercise the customary skills and diligence of a reasonable, competent attorney in failing to raise [an] issue on appeal ... [and appellant] was materially prejudiced thereby”
1 later decision 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.