Lafferty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Allen v. Friel (2008), State v. Nielsen (2014)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel was ineffective for omitting a claim, [Rhinehart] must show that the issue [was] obvious from the trial record and ... probably would have resulted in reversal on appeal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'fell below an objective standard of reasonableness' under prevailing professional norms.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Friel · State v. Ring“'fell below an objective standard of reasonable conduct and that the deficient performance prejudiced [him].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCloud v. State · Gregg 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.