Anderson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right to * * * have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dimmick v. State · Mead v. State

2. “We think the term ‘effective assistance’ —the courts’ construction of the constitutional requirement for the assistance of counsel — does not relate to the quality of the service rendered by a trial lawyer or to the decisions he makes in the normal course of a criminal case; except that, if his conduct is so incompetent as to deprive his client of a trial in any real sense — render the trial a mockery and a farce is one descriptive expression, — the. accused must have another trial, or rather, more accurately, is still entitled to a trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thessen v. State

3. “Closely allied to appellant's claim that a continuance should have been granted because appellant's counsel did not have time to adequately prepare for trial is appellant's further claim that he was denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed to him by the sixth amendment to the federal constitution. 5”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edward Allen Mead, 32036 v. Raymond W. Meier, Warden