State v. Drummond’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 348 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 354 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Hunter (2011), State v. Diar (2008)
4 federal appellate · 348 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 · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks
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 354 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the record contains no evidence which would justify the filing of a motion to suppress, the appellant has not met his burden of proving that his attorney violated an essential duty by failing to file the motion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a trial judge orders a partial, as opposed to a total, closure of a court proceeding, a 'substantial reason' rather than Waller's 'overriding interest' will justify the closure.”
4 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.