Wesley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

168 state decisions

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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In order to succeed on [an ineffective assistance of counsel] claim, appellant must show that his counsel’s performance was professionally deficient and that, but for counsel’s unprofessional conduct, there is a reasonable probability the outcome of the proceedings would have been different.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fennell v. State

2. “prong of the Strickland test, this Court is not required to examine the other). d) Likewise, trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to the portion of the State's closing argument in which it referred to Turner as a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. TURNER v. the STATE.