Tong v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Bone v. State (2002), Mallett v. State (2001)
137 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 · Payne v. Tennessee · Thompson v. State · Drye v. United States · Moscariello v. United States
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Did the attorney’s performance fail to constitute “reasonably effective assistance,” i.e., did the defense attorney’s representation fall below an objective standard of reasonableness under prevailing professional norms? 2. If so, was there a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceedings would have been different?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keen v. State“This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.”). . Id. (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Miller“must ground his contention in analogous case law or provide the Court with the relevant jurisprudential framework for evaluating his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Rose
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.