State v. Pursifell’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Gardner (1989), State v. Lovell (1999)
46 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Goldstein v. United States · Bowsher v. SmithKline Corp.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make some reasonable, non-suggestive efforts to determine the nature of the defendant's complaints”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[when a defendant is forced to stand trial with the assistance of an attorney with whom he has become embroiled in an irreconcilable conflict, he is deprived of the effective assistance of any counsel....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] good overall reputation ... is no guaranty even an excellent attorney, especially a very busy one, has not botched a particular case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.