Laib v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Flanagan v. State (2006), Roth v. State (2007)
1 district · 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 · Heckelsmiller v. State · Garcia v. State · Greywind v. State · Steinbach 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant must first overcome the 'strong presumption' that trial counsel's representation fell within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance, and courts must consciously attempt to limit the distorting effect of hindsight.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rourke v. State · Davies v. State
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.