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← 175 S.W.3d 110 - Matthews v. State

Matthews v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · Moss v. State · Coates v. State · State v. Redman

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

  1. “Strickland and its progeny only recognize three types of cases in which prejudice normally may be presumed: (1) where there has been an actual or constructive denial of the right to counsel altogether; (2) where the [S]tate has affirmatively interfered with counsel’s representation; and (3) where counsel’s representation is impeded by an actual conflict of interest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.