Head v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 2012 OK CR 7 - NELOMS v. State (2012), 2010 OK CR 6 - Simpson v. State (2010)
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 · Spuehler v. State · Simpson v. State · 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State · McCarty 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. TAFOLLA v. STATE · TAYLOR v. STATE“To accomplish this, it is not enough to show the failure had some conceivable effect on the outcome of the proceeding.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. TAFOLLA v. STATE · MASON v. STATE“[A]n act or omission which is made punishable in different ways by different provisions of this title may be punished under any of such provisions, ... but in no case can a criminal act or omission be punished under more than one section of law....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. STATE v. KISTLER · Brown 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.