Swan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
August 2021
most recently cited
1 district · 18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Crawford v. Washington · Murray v. Carrier · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court must consider the 'totality of the evidence,' and 'must ask if the [movant] has met the burden of showing that the decision reached would reasonably likely have been different absent the errors.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dale v. State“a court deciding an actual ineffectiveness claim must judge the reasonableness of counsel's challenged conduct on the facts of the particular case, viewed as of the time of counsel's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dale v. State“that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dale 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.