Menefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
31 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo))
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Thompson v. State · Garcia v. State · Rylander v. State
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appellate court should not find deficient performance unless the challenged conduct was 'so outrageous that no competent attorney would have engaged in it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarate v. State“An ineffective-assistance claim must be firmly founded in the record and the record must affirmatively demonstrate the meritorious nature of the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guzman v. State“[T]rial counsel should ordinarily be afforded an opportunity to explain his actions before being denounced as ineffective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guzman v. State
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.