Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2023
4 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · United States v. Cronic · Jones v. Barnes
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant claims that he has been prejudiced by ineffective assistance of counsel, the defendant must show that his counsel did not perform 'as well as a lawyer with ordinary training and skill in ... erimi-nal law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindeman v. State“In the absence of evidence ruling out the possibility of a tactical reason to explain counsel's conduct, the presumption of competence remains unrebutted and operates to preclude a finding of ineffective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindeman v. State“presumption that trial counsel's actions were motivated by sound tactical considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindeman 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.