State v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 220 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Diar (2008), State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion) (2016)
2 federal appellate · 220 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Crawford v. Washington · State v. Jenks · Ohio v. Roberts
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reversal of a conviction for ineffective assistance of counsel `requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“was motivated in part by a desire to silence the witness.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“a charge of complicity may be stated in terms of this section, or in terms of the principal offense.”
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.