Gandy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668 (104 SC 2052, 80 LE2d 674) (1984), ‘(t)o prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, [Jones] bears the burden of showing both that trial counsel was deficient and that he was prejudiced by the deficiency. (Cit.)’ (Cit.) In order to establish prejudice, ‘a defendant (must) show “a reasonable probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome that, but for counsel’s alleged unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” (Cits.)’ (Cit.) When reviewing an ineffective assistance claim, ‘we accept the trial court’s factual findings and credibility determinations unless clearly erroneous, but we independently apply the legal principles to the facts. (Cits.)’ (Cit.)” [Cit.]”

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