In Re Dunbar’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably In Re Plante (2000), In re Labounty (2005)
32 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · State v. Ahearn · State v. Percy · State v. Bristol
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re James Burke · In Re Russo“show that [counsel's] deficient performance prejudiced the defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]rial counsel are permitted a great deal of discretion in decisions regarding trial strategy, and even the failure of that strategy is not the standard by which a reviewing court will measure trial counsel's competence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re James Burke
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.