Acosta v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio))
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Holloway v. Arkansas · Wood v. Georgia · Mickens v. Taylor
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actively represented conflicting interests,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Miera
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.