Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
October 2022
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. Taylor · Allen v. United States · Kimmelman v. Morrison
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ecisions about what questions to ask on cross-examination are quintessential trial strategy and will rarely constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] tactical decision will not form the basis for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim unless it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. HARRIS v. the STATE.
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.