State v. Risdal’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably State v. Morgan (1997), State v. Hildebrant (1987)
58 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 · Nix v. Whiteside · Taylor v. State · State v. Newman · State v. Kraus
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.
“tried and convicted of second-degree and third-degree sexual abuse of two minor boys. See Iowa Code §§ 709.1 (3), 709.3(2), 709.4(5) (1985). He was sentenced to serve two consecutive indeterminate terms of incarceration-one term not to exceed twenty-five years, the other not to exceed ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoeck“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. Davis 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.