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6 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 312 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from David Ronald Chandler v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Ronald Chandler v. United States Anchor | green | “no competent counsel would have taken the action that his counsel did take.” | 88 |
| 2 | Lockhart v. Fretwell | green | “an analysis focusing solely on mere outcome determination, without attention to whether the result of the proceeding was fundamentally unfair or unreliable, is defective.” | 67 |
| 3 | Lockhart v. Fretwell | green | “unreliability or unfairness does not result if the ineffectiveness of counsel does not deprive the defendant of any substantive or procedural right to which the law entitles him.” | 61 |
| 4 | Richard Joseph Lynn v. United States | green | “relief under 28 u.s.c. 2255 'is reserved for transgressions of constitutional rights and for that narrow compass of other injury that could not have been raised in direct appeal and would, if condoned, result in a complete miscarriage of justice.” | 55 |
| 5 | Richard Joseph Lynn v. United States | green | “is reserved for transgressions of constitutional rights and for that narrow compass of other injury that could not have been raised in direct appeal and would, if condoned, result in a complete miscarriage of justice.” | 23 |
| 6 | David Ronald Chandler v. United States | green | “avoid second-guessing counsel's performance: it does not follow that any counsel who takes an approach the court would not have chosen is guilty of rendering ineffective assistance.” | 18 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.