2015 UT App 42 - State v. Hards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Because both deficient performance and resulting prejudice are requisite elements of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, a failure to prove either element defeats the claim.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ringstad · State v. Ricks

2. “To succeed on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show that trial counsel's performance was deficient and that the defendant was prejudiced thereby.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Howell · 2018 UT App 30 - State v. Garcia

3. “[a] defendant suffers prejudice when, absent the deficiencies of counsel's performance, there is a reasonable likelihood that the defendant would have received a more favorable result at trial.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ringstad · State v. Howell