Faust v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
52
cited by 52 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited
52 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Romer v. State · Wesley v. State · Scott 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prosecutor is granted wide latitude in the conduct of closing argument, the bounds of which are in the trial court's discretion, to argue reasonable inferences from the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“counsel was not ineffective for failing to make a meritless objection”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“his attorney performed at trial in an objectively unreasonable way considering all the circumstances and in the light of prevailing professional norms. Courts reviewing ineffectiveness claims must apply a strong presumption that counsel's conduct fell within the wide range of reasonable professional performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhoden v. 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.