Deckard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The motion court clearly erred and violated [Movant's] right to due process of law and to effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and Article I, §§ 10, 14, and 18(a), 19 and 22(a) of the Missouri Constitution in denying [Movant's] Rule 29.15 motion for post-conviction relief claim after evidentiary hearing because [Movant] proved by a preponderance of the evidence that he alleged that he was denied his rights to due process of law and effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, §§ 10, 14, 18(a), 19, and 22(a) of the Missouri Constitution in that his trial attorney was ineffective for failing to object to various statements made by the prosecutor during voir dire where the prosecutor was arguing the facts of the case. A reasonably competent trial attorney would not have failed to object to such conduct, and [Movant] proved by a preponderance of the evidence that there is a reasonable probability that, but for trial counsel's ineffectiveness, the outcome of his trial would have been different.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martin v. State

2. “we will affirm the motion court's judgment as long as it reached the correct result, even if it may have used incorrect reasoning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hastings v. State