Vickers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Pyle v. State (2000), Flores v. State (2002)
27 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 · Wainwright v. State · Vickers v. State · Jeffers v. State · Monts 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]laims of ineffective counsel . . . must be examined in light of the standard set in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 68 (1984). That standard provides a two-prong test that must be met: (1) that the deficient performance of counsel must have resulted in errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the “counsel” guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, and (2) prejudice resulted which deprived the petitioner of a fair trial. Id. There is a strong presumption that trial counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance, and the petitioner alleging differently has the burden of overcoming that presumption. Wainwright v. State, 307 Ark. 569 , 823 S.W.2d 449 (1992). In assessing trial counsel’s performance, we make every effort to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight. Burnett v. State, 310 Ark. 202 , 832 S.W.2d 848 (1992).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cothren v. State · Helton 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.