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Jowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
1
states following
May 2020
most recently cited

41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Lajara v. State (1993), 209 Ga. App. 53 - Jackson v. State (1993)

41 state decisions

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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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Giglio v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret

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

  1. “that there is a reasonable probability (i.e., a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome) that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. [Cits.] [Id. at 462.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[C]ounsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “that counsel's performance was deficient.”
    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.