State v. Burnett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a criminal defendant raises a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for the first time on appeal, there is no trial court ruling to examine. We must therefore decide, as a matter of law, whether [Baer] received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel.”

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

2. “must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”

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

3. “'the jury was conflicted about the evidence and the competing versions of events offered by the victim and' the defendant, and that therefore the elimination of certain evidence may very well have mattered.”

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