207 Wis. 2d 258 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 227 Wis. 2d 758 - State v. Erickson (1999), State v. Thiel (2003)
3 federal appellate · 145 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Penson v. Ohio · Santobello v. New York · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Cronic
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant 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.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“an outcome-determinative test. In decisions following Strickland , the Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the touchstone of the prejudice component is 'whether counsel's deficient performance renders the result of the trial unreliable or the proceeding fundamentally unfair.'”
9 later decisions 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.