Roby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Roby v. State (1996), Dukes v. State (2001)
5 federal appellate · 51 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 State v. Knaffla · State Ex Rel. Roy v. Tahash · Scruggs v. State · Case v. State · Fox 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct appeal from a judgment of conviction is not the most appropriate way to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel because the reviewing court does not have the benefit of all the facts concerning why defense counsel did or did not do certain things.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n limited situations, if fairness so requires and if the petitioner did not 'deliberately and inexcusably' fail to raise the issue on direct appeal,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unless the petition and the files and records of the proceeding conclusively show that the petitioner is entitled to no relief, the court shall promptly set an early hearing on the petition and response thereto, and promptly determine the issues, make findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect thereto, and either deny the petition or enter an order granting appropriate relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berg 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.