Warner v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 622 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Sanchez (1986), Siverson v. O'Leary (1985)
13 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 · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Cronic · Martin v. Rose
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so defective as to negate the need for a showing of prejudice to establish ineffective assistance of counsel must be judged on a case-by-case basis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The attorney's total lack of participation deprived [defendant] of effective assistance of counsel at trial as thoroughly as if he had been absent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Siverson v. O'Leary
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.