Shorter v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Head v. Hill (2003), Chatman v. Mancill (2006)
28 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 George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · Vansant v. State · Battles v. Chapman · 238 Ga. App. 757 - Shaw v. State · 239 Ga. App. 625 - Shorter 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ituations may arise when every error enumerated by appellate counsel on appeal presented a strong, nonfrivolous issue but counsel's performance was nonetheless deficient because counsel's tactical decision not to enumerate one rejected error was an unreasonable one which only an incompetent attorney would adopt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not effectively operate in all cases in which appellate counsel’s performance is claimed to be deficient because of a failure to assert an error on appeal. Situations may arise when every error enumerated by appellate counsel on appeal presented a strong, nonfrivolous issue but counsel’s performance was nonetheless deficient because counsel’s tactical decision not to enumerate one •rejected error “was an unreasonable one which only an incompetent attorney would adopt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carpenter v. State“a particular nonfrivolous issue was clearly stronger than issues that counsel did present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.