307 Ga. App. 830 - Shields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Cronic · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“performed at trial in an objectively unreasonable way considering all the circumstances and in the light of prevailing professional norms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Swanson 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.