United States v. Weston’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 302 · 1983
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Whitlow v. State (2008), Scarpa v. Dubois (1994)
37 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 United States v. Tucker · Specht v. Patterson · Delli Paoli v. United States · Pomponio v. United States · Murzyn v. United States
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grossly incompetent professional conduct,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a minimum standard of professional representation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“United States v. Kalita, 712 F.2d 1122 , 1129 (7th Cir.1983); United States v. Phillips, 640 F.2d 87 , 92 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 991, 101 S.Ct. 2331, 68 L.Ed.2d 851 (1981); United States ex rel. Williams v. Twomey, 510 F.2d 634 , 641 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 876, 96 S.Ct. 148, 46 L.Ed.2d 109 (1975). This applies whether counsel is appointed or retained. United States v. Weston, 708 F.2d 302 , 306 (7th Cir.1983); United States ex rel. Williams v. Twomey, 510 F.2d at 640. 50 Furthermore, 51”
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.