State v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2010
14 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · People v. Ibarra · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · 13 Cal. 3d 749 - People v. Jenkins · Commonwealth v. Owens
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts distinguish between counsel failing to act because of ignorance of the facts or the law, and failing to act despite his knowledge of the facts or law. In the latter situation, counsel is presumed to have made an informed decision, even where the tactical advantage is not readily apparent to the appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mh Xxxx-Xxxxxx“or that his participation in the defense may harm the defendant more than his testimony, * * *, will aid him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goswick
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.