109 Wash. 2d 222 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
341 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 343 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland (1995), State v. Hendrickson (1996)
341 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 · 101 Wash. 2d 612 - State v. Acosta · 105 Wash. 2d 398 - State v. Jeffries · 102 Wash. 2d 87 - State v. Osborne · 95 Wash. 2d 616 - State v. Jones
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 343 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) defense counsel's representation was deficient, i.e., it fell below an objective standard of reasonableness based on consideration of all the circumstances; and (2) defense counsel's deficient representation prejudiced the defendant, i.e., there is a reasonable probability that, except for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the deficient performance prejudiced the defense.'”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“below an objective standard of reasonableness based on consideration of all of the circumstances.”
15 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.