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← 383 S.C. 559 - Stalk v. State

Stalk v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2016
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · McMann v. Richardson · Tollett v. Henderson · Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC

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

  1. “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.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Plea counsel is ineffective within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment only when the applicant satisfies both requirements.”
    1 later decision 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.