Ryan v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Chatman v. Mancill (2006), Kennebrew v. State (1996)
30 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 Black v. Hardin · White v. Kelso · First Bank & Trust Co. v. Zagoria · Roper v. State · Ryan 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellant's trial counsel could not reasonably be expected to assert or argue his own ineffectiveness on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because [the defendant's] fourth counsel was privately retained and not an attorney in the public defender's office, we do not treat him as one of a succession of attorneys from the same public defender's office, who are not to be considered 'new' counsel for the purpose of raising ineffective assistance claims[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Regardless of whether an attorney has been appointed to act for the client or retained by the client, the client is entitled to fidelity from the attorney and every member of the attorney's law firm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delevan 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.