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← 378 SW3D 328 - McLaughlin v. State

McLaughlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

57
cited by 57 later decisions
3
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

55 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Young · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden

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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[S]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts relevant to plausible opinions are virtually unchallengeable.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Failure to present evidence that is cumulative to that presented at trial does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “must identify 'specific acts or omissions of counsel that, in light of all the circumstances, fell outside the wide range of professional competent assistance,'”
    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.