Pertgen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
May 2003
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Furman v. Georgia · Godfrey v. Georgia · Maynard v. Cartwright
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, the power of this court to address plain error or issues of constitutional dimension sua sponte is well established. Because this case involves the ultimate punishment and because appellant’s claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are directly related to the merits of his claims, we will consider appellant’s claims on the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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