Childress v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2023
19 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 · United States v. Cronic · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Bordenkircher v. Hayes
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decision regarding which criminal charge to bring lies within the wide parameters of prosecutorial discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decision regarding which criminal charge to bring lies within the wide parameters of prosecutorial discretion. Prosecu-torial discretion has boundaries. Prosecutions cannot be based upon "unjustifiable standards such as race, religion or other arbitrary classification." It is the defendant's burden to show the State's prosecution of him is based upon discriminatory grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Thomason“the influence of the news media, either in the community at large or in the courtroom itself, pervaded the proceedings”
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.