Ard v. Catoe’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
60
cited by 60 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
60 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Cherry v. State · Thompson v. Wainwright · Hamblin v. Mitchell
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who enters a plea on the advice of counsel may only attack the voluntary and intelligent character of the plea by showing that counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the defendant would not have pled guilty, but would have insisted on going to trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kolle v. State · Jones v. State“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome of the trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. State · Miller v. State“[W]hen a defendant's conviction is challenged, 'the question is whether there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the fact finder would have had a reasonable doubt respecting guilt.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Miller v. State · Smalls 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.