Heath v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Danny Sartain (2012), Wilkes Jr. v. State (2015)
91 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 · Whitlow v. State · Dawson v. State · Herman v. State · State v. Heath
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review a district court's denial of a petition for postconviction relief to determine whether that court's findings are clearly erroneous and whether its conclusions of law are correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. J. Johnson 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.