State v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2025
11 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. Wade · State v. Ramirez · State v. Long · Parsons v. Barnes
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[wle will reverse a jury verdict only when ... we find that "the evidence to support the verdict was completely lacking or was so slight and unconvincing as to make the verdict plainly unreasonable and unjust.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When ... the claim of ineffective assistance is raised for the first time on appeal, we resolve the issue as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fell below an objective standard of reasonableness, and that the deficient performance prejudiced the outcome of the trial.”
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.