Guaraldi v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 15 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2017
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Fahey · United States v. Robert Edwards, Max Jakob, John J. Lombardozzi and Milton Parness · Brien v. United States · United States v. Ballesteros-Acuna
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show that there was some 'plausible alternative defense strategy or tactic' that might have been pursued, [or] an alternative strategy that 'was inherently in conflict with or not undertaken due to the attorney's other loyalties or interests.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Defense counsel have an ethical obligation to avoid conflicting representations and to advise the court promptly when a conflict of interest arises during the course of trial.... Unless the trial court knows or reasonably should know that a particular conflict exists, the court need not initiate an inquiry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We see no 'special circumstances' that gave rise in this case to greater potential conflicts of interest than those that exist whenever a ... lawyer”
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.