State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Martini (1993), State v. Cooper (1997)
136 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Katz v. United States · Payton v. New York
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]rial courts must carefully refrain from preempting defense counsel's strategic and tactical decisions and possibly prejudicing defendant's chance of acquittal. The public interest, while important, may not overwhelm defendant's interest in pursuing a legitimate defense in the complex setting of a criminal trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“indictment should be disturbed only on the `clearest and plainest ground,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seasoned by a degree of deference to defense counsel's strategic decisions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. RT · State v. Jones
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.