Burch, Dan Dale’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Roe, Warden v. Flores-Ortega · Rodriquez v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is a deferential standard of review that requires appellate courts to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court's ruling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. State“reversing only if no reasonable view of the record could support the trial court's ruling”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarate v. State“must uphold the trial court's ruling if it is within the zone of reasonable disagreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarate 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.