State v. Fries’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2025
19 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 · Morrow v. Parratt · State v. Leadinghorse · State v. Rust · State v. Hochstein
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial counsel performed as a lawyer possessing ordinary training and skill in the criminal law should have performed,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decision to call, or not to call, a particular witness, made by counsel as a matter of trial strategy, even if that choice proves ineffective, will not, without more, sustain a finding of ineffectiveness of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Broomhall“'[t]he record discloses that the decision not to call an expert witness was carefully made and based on trial strategy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellefson v. Hopkins
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.