Ortega v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Howard v. State · Noel v. State · Henington v. State · Kemp 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If the petition and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the petitioner is entitled to no relief, the trial court shall make written findings to that effect, specifying any parts of the files, or records that are relied upon to sustain the court's findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClinton 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.