Forrest v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
62
cited by 62 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Tokar · State v. Storey · State v. Forrest · Worthington v. State · State v. Edwards
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court will not challenge the motion court's determination of [an expert witness's] credibility as it could make the best observation [of the witness] or trial counsel's strategic decision not to call a witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's deficient performance, the jury would have concluded the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.