State v. Wurtz’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2016
18 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 · State v. Brammer · Cowan v. State · State v. Piskorski · State v. Phipps
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough an information should be as specific as possible with respect to time, it is not always possible to know with certainty when the offenses occurred; this is especially true in cases where there is a minor victim who does not immediately complain to the authorities; thus, specificity of time is not always required in the information.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Floody · State v. Darby“ISSUE ONE WHETHER SONEN WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL? This court has often held that claims of ineffective assistance of counsel will not ordinarily be considered on direct appeal. The preferable means to consider incompetent counsel claims is through habeas corpus proceedings. There are many reasons for this rule including the fact that the attorney accused of incompetence is then provided an opportunity to defend his or her actions. An exception to the rule exists where representation at trial was so “ineffective and counsel’s representation so casual that the trial record evidences a manifest usurpation of appellant’s constitutional rights[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sonen“First, ... that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel” guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, ... that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel’s errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jett
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.