Strong v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Zink v. State (2009), Forrest v. State (2009)
1 federal appellate · 52 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Crawford v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'duty to investigate does not force defense lawyers to scour the globe on the off-chance something will turn up; reasonably diligent counsel may draw a line when they have good reason to think further investigation would be a waste.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]his Court holds that counsel’s failure to raise a Batson objection, absent any attempt by [the appellant] to demonstrate that unqualified persons served on the jury, does not amount to a structural defect that entitles him to a presumption of prejudice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benjamin v. State“To overcome this presumption, [Fonville] must point to 'specific acts or omissions of counsel that, in light of all of the circumstances, fell outside the wide range of professional competent assistance.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fonville 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.