228 Ga. App. 640 - Mency v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 239 Ga. App. 52 - Buice v. State (1999), 247 Ga. App. 508 - Gosnell v. State (2001)
47 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 · Lajara v. State · Jefferson v. Zant · Fugate v. State · Hammond 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court need not determine whether trial counsel's performance was deficient before examining the prejudice suffered by the defendant as a result of the alleged deficiency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that counsel's deficiency so prejudiced his defense that a reasonable probability exists that the result of the trial would have been different but for that deficiency.”
1 later decision 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.