Gross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably State v. Raines (2004), State v. Williams (2006)
43 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 · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Jones v. Barnes · Smith v. Murray · McGee v. County of Orange
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deoxyribonucleic acid (‘DNA’) is the organic material that provides the genetic instructions for all individual hereditary characteristics. The importance of DNA for forensic purposes is that DNA does not vary within an individual and, with the exception of identical twins, no two individuals have the same DNA configuration. The molecular structure of DNA is commonly referred to as a ‘double helix,’ which resembles a spiraling ladder, and which is composed of twisted double strands of repeated sequences of ‘nucleotides.’ The sides of the ladder are composed of the ‘nucleotides,’ which are organic bases that pair with one another to form the ‘rungs’ of the double helix. It is the repeating sequence of base pairs along the DNA double helix that comprise ‘genes,’ which determine the unique physiological traits of human beings. The specific position that a gene occupies is called its ‘locus.’ An individual’s entire complement of DNA is known as the ‘genome.’ The vast majority of the base pair sequences of human DNA are identical for all people. There are, however, a few DNA segments or genes, called ‘polymorphic loci,’ which are highly variable among individuals. The alternative forms of these individual polymorphic gene fragments are called ‘alleles.’ It is these polymorphisms that have great significance for forensic DNA analysis because they provide the basis for DNA identification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. State · Derr v. State“[I]n assessing the effectiveness .., of appellate counsel in failing to raise [claims] on appeal, Strickland’s performance and prejudice prongs naturally overlap because the questions of whether counsel’s performance was adequate and whether it prejudiced the petitioner both will turn on the viability of the omitted claims, ie., whether there is a reasonable possibility of success .... The Sixth Amendment does not require an attorney to argue every possible issue on appeal. An advocate does render ineffective assistance of counsel, however, by ... omitting on direct appeal a claim that would have had a substantial possibility of resulting in a reversal of petitioner’s conviction. The crucial inquiry is whether confidence in the reliability of the conviction is undermined by the failure to ... raise the claims on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) counsel’s representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness, and (2) there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 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.