State v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
184 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Warclub (2005), State v. Rosling (2008)
184 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 · State v. Finley · Brown v. Craven · United States v. Walker
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to show errors so serious that assistance was not effective[,] . . . failed to show that those errors prejudiced the defense and deprived him of a fair trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. D. Knox“certain circumstances, counsel's performance may be so deficient that a defendant need not prove the second element of the Strickland test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. JC“prejudice may be presumed without inquiry into the actual conduct at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. JC
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.