State v. Beckering’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is raised for the first time on appeal, there is no lower court ruling to review and we must decide whether the defendant was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel as a matter of law.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gallegos · 2015 UT App 193 - State v. Martinez

2. “for the purposes of the in-concert enhancement. 5 113 Even if we determined there was an error in the challenged jury instruetion, Beckering has failed to demonstrate that the error prejudiced her defense. The language used in the jury instruction is consistent with the language and structure of Utah Code section 76-5-111(2), which provides for criminal penalties against”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 209 - State v. Beckering

3. “the [petitioner] bears the burden of proving that counsel's errors actually had an adverse effect on the defense and that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCloud v. State