Dent v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jones v. Barnes · Reed v. Ross · State v. Knaffla · Case v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an appellant and his counsel have divergent opinions as to what issues should be raised on appeal, his counsel has no duty to include claims which would detract from other more meritorious issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson 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.