United States v. Ashimi’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 643 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably United States v. Kamel (1992), United States v. Fish (1994)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Simmons v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Pelaes v. United States · Penson v. Ohio
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceedings would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... a blank record cuts in favor of, not against, effective assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`It is not our task to call the plays as we think they should have been called. On the contrary, we must seek to evaluate the conduct from counsel's perspective at the time, and must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within a wide range of reasonable professional assistance.'”
1 later decision 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.