People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
June 2024
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Padilla v. Kentucky · 197 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. Edwards · 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when reviewing an ineffective assistance claim related to a defendant's defense strategy or chance of acquittal, i.e. , a defendant's prospects at trial, the court requires a claim of innocence or a plausible defense to establish prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Williams“'reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted on going to trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Boyd
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.