Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the context of a guilty plea, a movant establishes prejudice due to ineffective assistance of counsel by demonstrating that a reasonable probability exists that, but for plea counsel’s errors, the movant would not have entered a guilty plea and would have insisted on proceeding to trial.”

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

2. “Findings of fact and conclusions of law are clearly erroneous only if our review of the entire record leaves us with the definite and firm impression that a mistake has been made.”

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

3. “limited to a determination of whether the findings and conclusions of the [motion] court are clearly erroneous.”

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