Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1990
8 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 Williams v. Beto · Foster v. Beto · Meeks v. State · 168 Tex. Crim. 35 - Robertson v. State · Washington 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the fact that some other lawyer followed a different course in another case, or would have done differently had he been acting as counsel, is no ground for branding the appointed attorney with the opprobrium of ineffectiveness * * * or incompetency. The practice of law is an art as well as a science. As no two men can be exactly alike in the practice of the profession, it is basically unreasonable to judge an attorney by what another would have done, or says he would have done, in the better light of hindsight.” Williams v. Beto, 354 F.2d 698, 706 (5th Cir.1965), accord, Brooks v. State, 473 S.W.2d 30 (Tex.Cr.App.1971); Lucas v. State, 463 S.W.2d 200 (Tex.Cr.App.1971).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State · White 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.