State v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 597 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 632 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
15 federal appellate · 597 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford · Pulley v. Harris · Booth v. Maryland · Burger v. Kemp
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 632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires us to eliminate the distorting effect of hindsight.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage“considered only the relevant, material, and competent evidence in arriving at its judgment unless it affirmatively appears to the contrary.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the “counsel” guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.’ [Strickland, supra,] at 687 . The Strickland standard was recently approved in Burger v. Kemp (1987), 483 U.S. [776], 97 L. Ed. 2d 638 . Accord State v. Smith (1985), 17 Ohio St. 3d 98, 100 , 17 OBR 219, 220-221, 477 N.E. 2d 1128, 1131 ; State v. Lytle (1976), 48 Ohio St. 2d 391, 395 , 2 O.O. 3d 495, 497, 358 N.E. 2d 623, 626 , vacated in part on other grounds (1978), 438 U.S. 910 .””
7 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.