105 Wash. 2d 398 - State v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992)
18 federal appellate · 109 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Katz v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Griffin v. California
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f] irst, the defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel" guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction . . . resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'cases reported in the Washington Reports or Washington Appellate Reports since January 1, 1965, in which the judge or jury considered the imposition of capital punishment regardless of whether it was imposed or executed,’ ” and cases that had been reported under a statutory proceeding of”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(7) The defendant committed the murder to conceal the commission of a crime or to protect or conceal the identity of any person committing a crime. (8) There was more than one victim and the murders were part of a common scheme or plan or the result of a single act of the defendant.”
6 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.