State v. Poindexter’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Atkins v. Virginia · Ford v. Wainwright · Hopkins v. Reeves
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a reviewing court can determine at the outset that there is no reasonable probability that in the absence of counsel's alleged errors the result of the proceeding would have been different, then the court need not determine whether counsel's performance was actually deficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]ignificantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with significant limitations in adaptive functioning, both of which were manifested before the age of 18.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Locklear“no defendant who is mentally retarded shall be sentenced to death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Locklear
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.