State v. Kougl’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Gunderson (2010), State v. Herman (2008)
117 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 · State v. White · State v. Jefferson · State v. Herrman · Hans 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By failing to ask the court to tell the jurors that the law demands they view the accomplices' testimony with distrust, trial counsel failed to use the law to strike at the heart of the State's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. J. Black
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.