Kirksey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Cowans (1999), Evans v. State (2001)
2 district · 114 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Liteky et al United States · Tollett v. Henderson · Jones v. Barnes
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n opinion formed by a judge on the basis of facts introduced or events occurring in the course of the current proceedings, or of prior proceedings, constitutes a basis for a bias or partiality motion where the opinion displays “a deep-seated favoritism or antagonism that would make fair judgment impossible.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“spend much of their professional lives separating the wheat from the chaff' (internal quotation marks omitted)). COURT OF APPEALS OF NEVADA 11 OH 1947H Generally, "what a judge learns in his official capacity does not result in disqualification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the defendant has pleaded guilty, the only claims that may be raised thereafter [in a habeas proceeding] are those involving the voluntariness of the plea itself and the effectiveness of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.