Worthington v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 158 state decisions

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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If a potential witness's testimony would not unqualifiedly support a defendant, the failure to call such a witness does not constitute ineffective assistance.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eye v. State · Duke v. State

2. “except to the extent that the conduct affected the voluntariness and knowledge with which the plea was made.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rice v. State · Booker v. State

3. “[wjhether a fact requires recusal depends on the factual context, which gives -meaning to the kind of bias that requires disqualification of a judge. .Specifically, a disqualifying bias or prejudice is one that has■ an extrajudicial source and results in an opinion on the merits on some basis other than what the judge learned from the judge’s participation in a case. In cases requiring recusal, the common, thread is. either a fact from which prejudgment of some evidentiary issue in the case by the judge may be inferred or facts indicating the judge considered some evidence properly in the case for an illegitimate purpose.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Palmer v. Colle · State v. Payne