State v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Wertz v. State (2014), Randall Thomas McArty v. State of Arkansas (2020)
66 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 · United States v. Cronic · Williams v. State · Noel v. State · Barrett 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless a petitioner makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction resulted from a breakdown in the adversarial process that renders the result unreliable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanders v. State · Crippen 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.