Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
82
cited by 82 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
82 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chambers v. Mississippi · Drinkard v. Walker · Jones v. State · Milam 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a convicted defendant must show that counsel performed deficiently and that the deficient performance prejudiced the defendant such that a reasonable probability exists that, but for counsel’s errors, the outcome of the trial would have been different.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Mays v. State“'the moment in time at which the defendant resorts to deadly force and the act being performed by the victim at that moment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mays v. State · Swanson v. State“an aggravated assault independent of the act which caused [his] death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. State · Ortiz 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.