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Small v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. State · Dutton v. State · Whalen v. State · Wright 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.

  1. “basic, serious and fundamental ... and clearly deprive an accused of a substantial right, or which clearly show manifest injustice.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the error complained of must be so clearly prejudicial to substantial rights as to jeopardize the fairness and integrity of the trial process,”
    1 later decision 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.