United States v. Auerbach’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 1157 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States v. Hall (1988), Hayes v. Al Lockhart (1985)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Glasser v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Frady
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An actual conflict occurs when counsel cannot use his best efforts to exonerate one defendant for fear of implicating the other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no litmus test to determine whether an actual conflict exists,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment, a defendant who raised no objection at trial must demonstrate that an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayes v. Al Lockhart
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.