Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Barker v. Wingo · Doggett v. United States · Clark 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant claims that trial counsel performed deficiently in failing to [call] a witness for trial, the defendant may not rely on hearsay and speculation, including prior unsworn statements, to prove the prejudice prong of his ineffectiveness claim. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manriquez v. State“A charge of prosecutorial misconduct is a serious charge and is not to be lightly made; having raised it, appellant has the duty to prove it by the record and by legal authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morrison 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.