State v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Hancock (2006)
4 federal appellate · 76 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wong Sun v. United States · Williams v. Taylor · State v. Bradley · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the age, mentality, and prior criminal experience of the accused; the length, intensity, and frequency of interrogation; the existence of physical deprivation or mistreatment; and the existence of threat or inducement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reynolds · State v. A.P.“The extent and scope of cross-examination clearly fall within the ambit of trial strategy, and debatable trial tactics do not constitute lack of effective assistance of counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts must be highly deferential to counsel's performance and will not second-guess trial strategy decisions.”
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.