State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Garcell (2009), State v. Badgett (2007)
6 federal appellate · 101 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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · Arizona v. Fulminante · Johnson v. United States · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the cold record reveals that no further investigation is required.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“Deficient performance may be established by showing that counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen this Court reviews ineffective assistance of counsel claims on direct appeal and determines that they have been brought prematurely, we dismiss those claims without prejudice, allowing defendant to bring them pursuant to a subsequent motion for appropriate relief in the trial court.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Miles
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.