Kerns v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Strickland v. State (1977), Bond v. State (1980)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Blackburn v. State · Chatman v. State · Emler v. State · Yarber v. State · Beck 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere allegations of omissions, unsupported by the record, and speculation as to what might or might not have been more beneficial to the defendant do not present issues susceptible to review.” Kerns v. State, (1976) 265 Ind. 39, 43 , 349 N.E.2d 701, 704 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Merida v. State · Line v. State““We have frequently stated that an attorney is strongly presumed to be competent. (citations omitted). Absent a glaring and critical omission or succession of omissions evidencing in their totality a mockery of justice, this Court will not attribute a criminal conviction or affirmation to ineffective representation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodgers 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.