United States v. Laughlin’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 786 · 1991
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Jeronimo (2005), United States v. Daly (1992)
103 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3624
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Garrett v. United States · United States v. Birges · United States v. Wagner
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, we will not review challenges to the effectiveness of defense counsel on direct appeal. Such an issue is more appropriately reserved for habeas corpus proceedings, where facts outside the record, but necessary to the disposition of the claim, may be fully developed.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we will not review challenges to the effectiveness of defense counsel on direct appeal.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if 'the defendant's legal representation was so inadequate as obviously to deny him his sixth amendment right to counsel' and 'the trial court's failure to take notice sua sponte of the problem' amounted to plain error.”
13 later decisions 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.