Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Durham v. State · 299 Ga. App. 330 - Goolsby v. State · 291 Ga. App. 573 - Gray v. State · Hargrove 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial tactics and strategy, no matter how mistaken in hindsight, are almost never adequate grounds for finding trial counsel ineffective unless they are so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“it can provide no grounds for reversal unless it was so patently unreasonable that no competent attorney would have chosen it.”
1 later decision 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.