Wadley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2018
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 · State v. Stonaker · Banks v. State · Wadley 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the asserted error of failure to charge the jury on the principle of voluntary manslaughter is properly preserved at the trial level and presented on appeal the question for the appellate court is whether there is any evidence of voluntary manslaughter. [Cit.] That is not the test when a challenge to a conviction is based on ineffective assistance of counsel indirectly raising the question whether it was error not to charge voluntary manslaughter. When the asserted error of failure to charge voluntary manslaughter is one step removed through the vehicle of a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel the test is whether, absent the error of counsel, there is a reasonable probability the jury would have reached a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. When reached directly the test is the any evidence rule. When reached indirectly through a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel the test is reasonable probability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hung v. State“The performance of counsel test requires counsel to perform reasonably under prevailing professional norms. We do not evaluate this prong of the test because the issue turns on the second prong. If there was no prejudice to the defense, it does not matter whether the performance of counsel was adequate. Therefore, we turn to the second prong of the test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodwin v. State
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.