Nims v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2001
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Frady · Swain v. State of Alabama
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer 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.