State v. Lytle’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1,437 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,443 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin (1983), State v. Xie (1992)
1,437 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 Chapman v. State of California · Carroll v. United States · Griffin v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Chambers v. Maroney
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bradley · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 1,443 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the defense was prejudiced by counsel's ineffectiveness.”
144 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the accused, under all the circumstances, * * * had a fair trial and substantial justice was done.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“`We deem it misleading to decide an issue of competency by using, as a measuring rod, only those criteria defined as the best of available practices in the defense field.' * * * Counsel chose a strategy that proved ineffective, but the fact that there was another and better strategy available does not amount to a breach of an essential duty to his client.”
7 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.