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← 298 GA 396 - Howard v. State

Howard v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
October 2023
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · White v. State · Kolokouris v. State · Roper v. State · Andrews v. State

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

  1. “Mere speculation about what the evidence would have shown had it actually been obtained does not satisfy the requirement of showing [ Strickland ] prejudice.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A jury is free to reject a defendant's claim that he acted in self-defense.”
    1 later decision 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.