State v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Sanders (1994), 423 So. 2d 1116 - State v. Ray (1982)
59 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Harris v. New York · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · 356 So. 2d 936 - State v. Cass · 334 So. 2d 207 - State v. Freetime
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Louisiana’s discovery rules “are intended to eliminate unwarranted prejudice arising from surprise testimony and evidence,” and when the defendant “is lulled into a misapprehension of the strength of the state’s case through the prosecution’s failure to disclose timely or fully,” basic unfairness may result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shown to have been accurately taken, to be a correct representation of the subject in controversy, and when they shed light upon the matter before the court.”
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.