State v. Litherland’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Winfield (2006), State v. Bond (2015)
175 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that counsel's performance was deficient, in that it fell below an objective standard of reasonable professional judgment”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Bond · State v. Cunningham“that counsel's deficient performance was prejudicial-i.e., that it affected the outcome of the case.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Valencia · State v. Cox“rebut the strong presumption that under the cireumstances, the challenged action might be considered sound trial strategy.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Bond · State v. Penick
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.