State v. Seiber’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 318 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Carter (1995)
7 federal appellate · 318 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Eddings v. Oklahoma · State v. Long
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] firearm is an inherently dangerous instrumentality, the use of which is likely to produce death.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“To establish prejudice, the defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“counsel's errors [must be] so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.