Howell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “winnowing out weaker arguments on appeal and focusing on those more likely to prevail,” which Movant implicitly challenges in this appeal, is the same strategy employed by his current appellate counsel and is”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Richardson v. State

2. “It is well settled that errors raised for the -first time in the argument portion of a brief, and that are not raised in the point relied on, need not be considered by this court,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Deric L. Coon v. State of Missouri