Smith v. Kolb’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 437 · 1991
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
September 2000
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Washington v. Texas · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · Chiarella v. United States · Liegl v. Webb
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense, a defendant must show more than that he was merely deprived of the testimony of a witness: 'he must at least make some plausible showing of how [the] testimony would have been both material and favorable to his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was relevant, material, and vital to the defense, and whether the exclusion of that evidence was arbitrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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