State v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1,059 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,061 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Hunter (2011), State v. Diar (2008)
1,059 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 · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley · State v. Dehass
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · State v. Bradley · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 1,061 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to show deficient performance, the defendant must prove that counsel's performance fell below an objective level of reasonable representation. To show prejudice, the defendant must show a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance[.]”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“The scope of cross-examination falls within the ambit of trial strategy, and debatable trial tactics do not establish ineffective assistance of counsel.”
13 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.