State v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

75 state decisions

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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[c]ounsel is given wide latitude in matters of strategy, and the burden to show that counsel's performance fell short of the required standard is a heavy one for defendant to bear.”

   10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 663 - State v. Burrow · 188 N.C. App. 508 - State v. Duncan

2. “`so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 663 - State v. Burrow · 169 N.C. App. 90 - State v. Sutton

3. “[t]he offending comment was not only brief, but ... was made in the context of a proper ... argument,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Haugabook · State v. Schricker