State v. Kearney’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Herman v. State (2006), State v. English (2006)
30 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 · Dawson v. State · State v. Hagen · State v. Flowers · State v. Brasda
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test for abuse of discretion is whether the trial court acted arbitrarily or exceeded the bounds of reason resulting in substantial injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. English“[i]f it is easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice ... that course should be followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gallagher
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.