Zink v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably In Re Adoption of CMBR (2011), Johnson v. State (2013)
157 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Crawford v. Washington · Ring v. Arizona
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“specific acts or omissions of counsel that, in light of all the circumstances, fell outside the wide range of professional competent assistance.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grado v. State · McFadden v. State“[S]trategic choices made after a thorough investigation of the law and the facts relevant to plausible opinions are virtually unchallengeable....”
6 later decisions 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.