Pruitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Coleman v. State (2009), Phillips v. State (2009)
98 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 Eckman v. State · Jones v. State · Peterson v. State · Hewitt v. State · 222 Ga. App. 704 - Elrod 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show counsel's performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced him to the point that a reasonable probability exists that, but for counsel's errors, the outcome of the trial would have been different. A strong presumption exists that counsel's conduct falls within the broad range of professional conduct.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a valid trial strategy[,] and reasonable trial strategy does not constitute deficient performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broxton 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.