Vaca v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
49
cited by 49 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
47 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Worthington v. State · Zink v. State · Anderson v. State · State v. Johnston
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Counsel may choose to call or not call almost any type of witness or to introduce or not introduce any kind of evidence for strategic considerations.”
2 later decisions 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.