People v. Benevento’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “test. Thus, in light of the Strickland principle that an ineffective assistance claim is established if the court concludes that there is a reasonable probability that but for counsel's professionally deficient performance the outcome of the proceeding would have been different, we find it difficult to view so much of the New York rule as holds that”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 613 F. Supp. 2d 330 - Dixon v. Conway · Eze v. Senkowski

2. “), prior to the Supreme Court's 1984 decision in Strickland. Under that approach 140 "[s]o long as the evidence, the law, and the circumstances of a particular case, viewed in totality and as of the time of the representation, reveal that the attorney provided meaningful representation, the constitutional requirement will have been met”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eze v. Senkowski · Henry v. Poole

3. “which focuses on the `fairness of the process as a whole rather than [any] particular impact on the outcome of the case.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eze v. Senkowski · Henry v. Poole