State v. Trawitzki’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Thiel (2003), State v. Multaler (2002)
52 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 · Blockburger v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Missouri v. Hunter · Bell v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the exact number of convictions might have incrementally weakened the credibility of the witnesses, [but] this decrease is not enough to establish a reasonable probability that the jury would have reached a different verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after acquittal. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. And it protects against multiple punishments for the same offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.