Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.3d 708 · 2017
Citation profile
3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1542 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 8 U.S.C. § 1182 (§ 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Padilla v. Kentucky · United State v. Morgan · United States v. Gaudin
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'affirm on any basis apparent in the record,' even if it would 'require[] ruling on arguments not reached by the district court or even presented to us on appeal.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[w]hen a defendant seeks to vacate a guilty plea conviction by way of coram nobis , red flags accompany that request' and 'great caution is warranted.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]etitioner must first show that his counsel's 'performance was deficient,' and he must then show that 'the deficient performance prejudiced the defense.' " Williams v. United States , 858 F.3d 708 , 715 (1st Cir. 2017) (quoting Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 , 687, 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984) ). "The first requirement necessitates a demonstration that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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