State v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The granting or refusal of a motion for a new trial made upon the ground of after-discovered evidence is largely within the sound discretion of the Circuit Judge and his decision thereon will not be disturbed in the absence of a showing of abuse of discretion, amounting to manifest error of law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Morrison