State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Lloyd (2001), State v. Gainey (2002)
119 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. Odom · State v. Powell · Morgan Walton Properties, Inc. v. International City Bank & Trust Co. · State v. Braswell
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant must first show that counsel’s performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness as defined by professional norms. . . . Second, once defendant satisfies the first prong, he must show that the error committed was so serious that a reasonable probability exists that the trial result would have been different absent the error.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Bailey“[C]ontradictions and inconsistencies do not warrant dismissal; the trial court is not to be concerned with the weight of the evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court must analyze the evidence in the light most favorable to the State and give the State the benefit of every reasonable inference from the evidence.”
3 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.