Merida v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2011
16 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 Maldonado v. State · Blackburn v. State · Cottingham v. State · Dull v. State · Kerns 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Incompetency of counsel revolves around the particular facts of each case, and what the attorney did or did not do must have made the proceedings a mockery of justice shocking to the conscience of the reviewing court to constitute incompetence. This court will not second-guess tactics or strategy of a particular attorney in a particular case. Dull v. State, (1978) 267 Ind. 549, 552 , 372 N.E.2d 171, 173 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We recently considered this very question and declined to alter the rule. Cottingham v. State, (1978) Ind., 379 N.E.2d 984 . The present review standard adequately insures that criminal defendants receive competent legal counsel. We see no compelling reason to modify it."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan 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.