Hays v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2026
16 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 · Commonwealth v. Brocklehurst · Loop v. Class · Ramos v. Weber · Jones v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a defendant has received ineffective assistance of counsel is essentially a mixed question of law and fact. In the absence of a clearly erroneous determination by the circuit court, we must defer to its findings on such primary facts regarding what defense counsel did or did not do in preparation for trial and in his presentation of the defense at trial. This [C]ourt, however, may substitute its own judgment for that of the circuit court as to whether defense counsel’s actions or inactions constituted ineffective assistance of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Whether the court has jurisdiction of the crime and the person of the defendant; 2. whether the sentence was authorized by law; and 3. whether an incarcerated defendant has been deprived of basic constitutional rights. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyles v. Weber“may substitute its own judgment for that of the circuit court as to whether defense counsel's actions or inactions constituted ineffective assistance of counsel”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanden Hoek v. Weber
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.