Rowland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 56 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'unusual events or intervening changes in the law which prevent a movant from reasonably being able to raise all of the trial errors in the first post-conviction proceeding.' [Citation omitted.]”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ferenz v. State · Dawson v. State

2. “Ineffective assistance of counsel can qualify as an exceptional circumstance.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thuko v. State · State v. Mitchell

3. “'there are circumstances when no evidentiary record need be established, when the merit or lack of merit of an ineffectiveness claim about trial counsel is obvious,' and an ineffectiveness claim can therefore be resolved when raised for the first time on appeal, these circumstances are 'extremely rare.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Taylor · State v. McNellis