State v. Santillanes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably State v. Sosa (1997), State v. Hennessy (1992)
28 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 Wheat v. United States · Logarusic v. United States · Rath Packing Co. Creditors' Trust v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Johnson v. Transportation Agency · State v. Lankford
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe the interests of defendant and [the brother] here could not be effectively represented by one attorney. By attempting to establish a defense for [the brother], trial counsel was forced to abandon strategy that could have been used to exonerate defendant. In the interest of maintaining client confidentiality and avoiding perjury charges against [the brother], trial counsel was unable to use [the brother] as a witness for defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Churchman v. Dorsey“[the test for determining the existence of an actual conflict is whether counsel 'actively represented conflicting interests' that adversely affected his performance.”
1 later decision 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.