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← 241 Mont. 331 - State v. Coates

State v. Coates’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
3
states following
December 2009
most recently cited

48 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Perry · Coleman v. State · State v. Henricks · State v. Elliott

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

  1. “`reasonably effective assistance' test of whether a defendant's counsel acted within the range of competence demanded of attorneys in criminal cases. (Citation omitted.)”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “absent any specific errors or conduct identified in the trial that affected [its] outcome, [counsel's] cocaine abuse is irrelevant to the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “whether substantial evidence supports the findings and conclusions of the district court.”
    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.