State v. Borchardt’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Adams (2008), 192 Md. App. 1 - Morris v. State (2010)
25 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 · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Williams v. Taylor · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Ring v. Arizona
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]efore deciding to act, or not to act, counsel must make a rational and informed decision on strategy and tactics based upon adequate investigation and preparation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional 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.