State v. Hamblin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 913 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 923 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Schiebel (1990)
3 federal appellate · 913 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Rideout v. United States · Opper v. United States · Brown v. United States
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 923 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the `counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment[;]”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“Two or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment, information or complaint in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors or both, are of the same or similar character, or are based on the same act or transaction, or are based on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, or are part of a course of criminal conduct.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“that there exists a reasonable *Page 15 probability that were it not for counsel's errors, the result of the trial would have been different.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.