Smith v. McCord’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.3d 1161 · 2013
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
June 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Martinez v. Carr · In re Montoya
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“This isn’t to say [Hagmaier] lacked (or possessed) a meritorious case. It is to say only we will never know because clients like [Hagmaier] are usually bound by their lawyers’ actions — or, as here, inactions. Sometimes that means good cases are lost by bad lawyers, a lamentable cost of our legal system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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