TAFOLLA v. STATE’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
February 2026
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Blockburger v. United States · Crawford v. Washington · Pointer v. Texas
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cumulative error doctrine applies when several errors occurred at the trial court level, but none alone warrants reversal.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. OLVERA v. STATE · NOLEN v. STATE“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The United States Supreme Court has recognized that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution encompasses a right to expressive association which affords 'protection to collective effort on behalf of shared goals[;]' i.e., '[the] right to associate with others in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.