Larsen v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 215 · 1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2001
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · New York v. Ferber · Washington v. Watkins · Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the petitioner must demonstrate that the 'might have beens' would have been important enough to affect the proceedings' reliability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven `professionally unreasonable' errors by counsel do not warrant setting aside a conviction if the error had no effect on the judgment.”
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.