Burden v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010
6 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he assumption that Dixon received a grant of transactional immunity, negotiated by Kondritzer and the prosecutor in exchange for Dixon's testimony against [petitioner], is without factual support. . . . There is no documentary evidence of any sort that attests to Dixon's having received immunity. . . . Thus, [petitioner] can no longer base his conflict-of-interest claim on the mistaken assumption that the attorney representing him obtained or attempted to obtain immunity for one client in exchange for testimony that was instrumental in the conviction of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burden v. Zant“[g]iven Moses1 conduct [in vigorously cross-examining Dixon], ... even if a conflict of interest arose from his representation of a client previously represented by the same public defender's office, ... we perceive no adverse effect upon his representation” in this regard. Burden III, 903 F.2d at 1361 (internal citation omitted). Cf. Lightbourne, 829 F.2d at 1024 (holding that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burden v. Zant“the conflict never became actual in the sense that Kondritzer's representation of Dixon's interests required him to compromise [petitioner's] interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burden v. Zant
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.