Willis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 1004 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2013
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 656
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Porter v. States · Wade v. Shook
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as “counsel” guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defendant. This requires showing that counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In hindsight, there are few, if any, cross-examinations that could not be improved upon. If that were the standard of constitutional effectiveness, few would be the counsel whose performance would pass muster.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“counsel's failure to proffer a specific instruction on good faith did not fall outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. ROSTANO v. State
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.