Terry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Lawrence v. State (2010), Green v. State (2012)
41 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Malcolm v. State · Robinson v. State · Smith v. Francis
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To meet the first prong of the required test [for establishing ineffective assistance], the defendant must overcome the strong presumption that counsel’s performance fell within a wide range of reasonable professional conduct, and that counsel’s decisions were made in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must show both that counsel's performance was deficient and that the deficient performance was prejudicial to his defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy 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.