Dawson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. White (2001), In Re the Mental Health of K.G.F. (2001)
124 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 · Ake v. Oklahoma · Hayes v. Lockhart · United States v. Nersesian · United States v. Necoechea
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to Strickland , a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel must demonstrate that `there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A petitioner seeking to reverse a district court’s denial of a petition for postconviction relief based on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel bears a heavy burden. See Brown v. State (1996), 277 Mont. 430, 434 , 922 P.2d 1146, 1148 . In considering ineffective assistance of counsel claims on direct appeal and in postconviction proceedings, we apply the two-pronged test set forth by the United States Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington (1984), 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 . See Hagen v. State, 1999 MT 8, ¶ 10 , 293 Mont. 60, ¶ 10 , 973 P.2d 233, ¶ 10 . Strickland’s two-part test requires that the defendant must show that his counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense and deprived the defendant of a fair trial. Strickland, 466 U.S. at 687 , 104 S.Ct. at 2064 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. State · State v. Woods“[A] court need not determine whether counsel’s performance was deficient before examining the prejudice suffered by the defendant as a result of the alleged deficiencies. The object of an ineffectiveness claim is not to grade counsel’s performance. If it is easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice, which we expect will often be so, that course should be followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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