Boria v. Keane’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 492 · 1996
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 11 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Gordon (1998), Cullen v. United States (1999)
36 federal appellate · 11 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Cardillo v. United States · Livadas v. Aubry · Murphy v. United States
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defense lawyer in a criminal case has the duty to advise his client fully on whether a particular plea to a charge appears to be desirable.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“never gave his client any advice or suggestion as to how to deal with the People's offered plea bargain”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is one of the basic functions of defense counsel: “Prior to trial an accused is entitled to rely upon his counsel to make an independent examination of the facts, circumstances, pleadings and laws in volved and then to offer his informed opinion as to what plea should be entered.” In fact, the Supreme Court had held that a defendant “requires the guiding hand of counsel at every step in the proceedings against him.””
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.