Darks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Yamamoto v. United States · Maravilla v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has never allowed unfettered discovery in post-conviction proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Land
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.