Hughes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 204th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hernandez v. State · Ex Parte Graves · Bell v. State · Winters v. Presiding Judge of the Criminal District Court Number Three of Tarrant County
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we need not decide whether another remedy is available in a case in which a convicted person did not receive adequate assistance of counsel in a Chapter 64 proceeding, we may observe that, in some cases, a convicted person may get relief from defective representation by counsel through appeal under that chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hooks v. State
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.