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← 2018 ND 137 - Rourke v. State

Rourke v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Laib v. State · State v. Yineman · Chisholm v. State · Bahtiraj v. State

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

  1. “must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he would not have [pled] guilty and would have insisted on going to trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[c]ourts need not address both prongs ... and if a court can resolve the case by addressing only one prong it is encouraged to do so.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The issue of ineffective assistance of counsel is a mixed question of law and fact and is fully reviewable by this Court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.