Boykins v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 1539 · 1984
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United States v. Jordan (1990), Moses v. Payne (2009)
63 federal appellate · 8 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 · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Wainwright v. Sykes · Santobello v. New York
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material in the sense of a crucial, critical, highly significant factor.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A convicted defendant’s claim that counsel's assistance was so defective as to require reversal of a conviction ... has two components. First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance w'as deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the “counsel” guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction ... resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not empowered to correct erroneous evidence rulings of state trial courts.”
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.