Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “performed his duties at trial in an objectively unreasonable way, considering all the circumstances and in the light of prevailing professional norms, [and that there is] a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”

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

2. “hindsight has no place in an assessment of the performance of trial counsel, and a lawyer second-guessing his own performance with the benefit of hindsight has no significance for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shawn Daniel Meintz v. State

3. “[w]e cannot say under the circumstances of this case that no competent attorney would have struck the jury as [Boyd's] lawyer did[, Boyd] has not demonstrated deficient performance with respect to the selection of a jury.”

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