State v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2023
12 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 · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · State v. Ramseur · State v. Fritz
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Substantial denial in the conviction proceedings of defendant's rights under the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution or laws of the State of New Jersey; (b) Lack of jurisdiction of the court to impose the judgment rendered upon defendant's conviction; (c) Imposition of sentence in excess of or otherwise not in accordance with the sentence authorized by law if raised together with other grounds cognizable under paragraph (a), (b), or (d) of this rule. Otherwise a claim alleging the imposition of sentence in excess of or otherwise not in accordance with the sentence authorized by law shall be filed pursuant to [ Rule ] 3:21-10(b)(5). (d) Any ground heretofore available as a basis for collateral attack upon a conviction by habeas corpus or any other common-law or statutory remedy. [ R. 3:22-2.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Defense Q]: I’m going to ask you to remember back to ... September 3rd, 1994, 10:00, 10:30 in the evening. Remember that day? A: Yes. Q: And where were you at the time? A: In the parking lot [in the area of Powell’s residence]. Q: ... [W]ere you with anybody in the parking lot that evening at that time? A: I was around [others and Echols]. Q: ... And did something happen then, did you hear anything? A: Yes, I heard shots. Q: And what did you do? A: I ran [along with others and Echols]. Q: At any time did you see any gun in the hands of [Echols]? A: No.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“under Article I, paragraph 10 of the State Constitution a criminal defendant is entitled to the assistance of reasonably competent counsel, and that if counsel's performance has been so deficient as to create a reasonable probability that these deficiencies materially contributed to defendant's conviction, the constitutional right will have been violated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.