State v. Thiel’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Love (2005), Nika v. State (2008)
2 federal appellate · 187 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 · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Cronic · Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena · 92 Wis. 2d 797 - State v. MacHner
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 193 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.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Findings of fact include 'the circumstances of the case and the counsel's conduct and strategy.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an objective standard of reasonableness.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.