State v. Beckenbach’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Summerville v. Warden, State Prison (1994), LaCroix v. Board of Education (1986)
4 district · 132 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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Cronic · Ungar v. Sarafite · Morris v. Slappy
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o specific or even approximate date was given to the court as to when [the attorney] might have been able to conduct the defendant's trial. The trial court, therefore, could reasonably have viewed the motion as seeking a continuance of unspecified duration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The answer must be found in the circumstances present in every case, particularly in the reasons presented to the trial judge at the time the request is denied.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every reasonable presumption in favor of the proper exercise of the trial court's discretion will be made.”
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.