116 Ohio App. 3d 759 - State v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Bruce (2023), State v. Walker, Unpublished Decision (12-1-2005) (2005)
30 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 · United States v. Bagley · State v. Bradley · State v. Clayton · State v. Hamblin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a strong presumption that licensed attorneys are competent and that the challenged action is the product of sound trial strategy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even debatable trial tactics do not constitute ineffective assistance of trial counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Id. The defendant then must show that counsel's deficient performance prejudiced the defense. Id. This requires showing that but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the trial would have been different. Id. at 694 . Unless the defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said the conviction resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that rendered the result unreliable. {¶ 17}”
2 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.