United States v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
716 F.2d 576 · 1983
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably United States v. Birges (1984), Hendricks v. Calderon (1995)
55 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Davis v. Alaska · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Fahy v. Connecticut
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ertain defense strategies may be so ill-chosen that they may render counsel's overall representation constitutionally defective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ability to cross-examine the government's witnesses effectively was seriously compromised by his failure to interview them, since he would have little idea as to the specific areas of testimony which could be challenged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Adequate consultation between attorney and client is an essential element of competent representation of a criminal defendant.”
2 later decisions 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.