United States v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 1474 · 1987
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Teague (1992), United States v. Sitton (1992)
134 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1112 · 18 U.S.C. § 1792 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · Vandygriff v. Phillips · United States v. Hasting · Williams v. Florida
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where 'the defendant's legal representation was so inadequate as obviously to deny him his sixth amendment right to counsel.'”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'so inadequate' " that " 'the trial court's failure to take notice sua sponte of the problem' amount[s] to plain error.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“customary procedure in this Circuit for challenging the effectiveness of defense counsel”
12 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.