State v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Whitlow v. State (2008), State v. Charles McFarlane (2008)
70 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 · State v. Herrman · State v. Harris · State v. Turnsplenty · In re the Custody & Parental Rights of C.F.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e take this opportunity to clarify that in future cases we will utilize the procedure set forth in [State v. Herrman, 2003 MT 149, ¶ 34 , 316 Mont. 198, ¶ 34 , 70 P.3d 738, ¶ 34 ] and [State v. Turnsplenty, 2003 MT 159, ¶¶ 18-21 , 316 Mont. 275, ¶¶ 18-21 , 70 P.3d 1234, ¶¶ 18-21 ] when the record in a direct appeal is insufficient to determine whether the defendant’s counsel provided ineffective assistance. In other words, we will dismiss the direct appeal and require the defendant to raise the ineffective assistance claim via a post-conviction relief proceeding, if at all....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Audet
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.