Witt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
states following
November 1989
most recently cited
38 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Beto · Baker v. State · Conway v. Wilson · Frison v. State · Hinkle 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . complaints of ineffective counsel must be examined in light of what the Court said in Williams v. Beto, 354 F.2d 698 (5th Cir.): ‘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.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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