State v. Tchida’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably State v. Means (1985), 177 W. Va. 650 - State v. Glover (1987)
28 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · McMann v. Richardson · Sandstrom v. Montana · United States v. Easter · State v. Reiman
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ineffective assistance claims will be allowed on direct appeal only when the representation was so casual that the trial record evidences a manifest usurpation of appellant's constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Krebs v. Weber · State v. Petersen“Trial counsel’s candid preliminary statement that her experience in the practice of law was limited and that it was her feeling that someone who had practiced criminal law for a longer period would be better able to represent appellant did not overcome her presumed competency. Ineffective counsel must be demonstrated by acts or omissions which cause actual prejudice to the defense_ Inexperience alone does not mean incompetency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“natural, probable, and usual consequences”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tiger
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.