Jowers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
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
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.
“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 passagee.g. Cochran v. State“[C]ounsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochran v. State“that counsel's performance was deficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochran 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.