McHugh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
September 1997
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Smith v. State · Lindley v. State · Farmer v. State · Phillips 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judge who presides over the post-conviction hearing possesses exclusive authority to weigh the evidence and to determine the credibility of witnesses. The reviewing court therefore will not set aside the trial court's ruling on a post-conviction petition unless the evidence is without conflict and leads solely to a result different from that reached by the trial court. (Citation omitted.)"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hicks
How this case has been treated — in progress
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