Patterson v. LeMaster’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 874 So. 2d 1176 - Grosvenor v. State (2004), State Ex Rel. Children, Youth & Families Department v. Maria C. (2004)
97 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 · Neil v. Biggers · Hill v. Lockhart · Manson v. Brathwaite · McMann v. Richardson
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Effective assistance of counsel is necessary during plea negotiations because the most important decision for a defendant in a criminal case is generally whether to contest a charge or enter into a plea agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlos · State v. Edwards“Because courts are reluctant to rely solely on the self-serving statements of defendants, which are often made after they have been convicted and sentenced, a defendant is generally required to adduce additional evidence to prove that there is a reasonable probability that he or she would have gone to trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n order to satisfy the prejudice prong, it is necessary to show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne
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.