United States v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 596 · 1984
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Osborn v. Shillinger (1988)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Chambers v. Maroney · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an actual conflict of interest adversely affected [Bauer's] performance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actively represented conflicting interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We limit our decision in this case to situations where, unbeknown to the defendant, his representative was not authorized to practice law in any state, and the lack of such authorization stemmed from failure to seek it or from its denial for a reason going to legal ability, such as failure to pass a bar examination, or want of moral character.”
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.