United States v. King’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 477 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Thurmond (1993), United States v. Caro (1992)
14 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Sloan v. Hicks · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Ford v. Wainwright · Perez v. Jones
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney's failure to investigate cannot be charged as a claim of 'ineffective assistance of counsel' when the essential and foundational information required to trigger such an investigation is withheld from the defendant's attorney by the defendant himself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“willfully associated himself in some positive way with the criminal venture,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“knowingly associated [him]self in some way with the criminal venture”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.