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.
“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 passagee.g. Morales v. State“[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 passagee.g. Morales v. State“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 passagee.g. Morales v. State
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.