State v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Johnson (2017), State v. Maestas (2012)
100 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · United States v. Vonn · State v. Dunn · State v. Holgate
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law governing the error was clear at the time the alleged error was made.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. J.C. v. State · State v. Johnson“absent the error, there is a reasonable likelihood of a more favorable outcome for the appellant, or phrased differently, our confidence in the verdict is undermined.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Van Huizen · J.C. v. State“If any one of these requirements is not met, plain error is not established.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.