Best v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Bivins v. State (1995), Bieghler v. State (1997)
38 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 Solem v. Helm · Alfaro v. State · Clark v. State · Ramos v. State · Stwalley 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard for counsel's performance is that of reasonably effective assistance. To prevail on his claim, [appellant] must show that his attorney's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness under prevailing norms. He also must prove that his attorney's failure to function was so prejudicial as to deprive him of a fair trial. A fair trial is denied when the conviction or sentence results from a breakdown that renders the result unreliable. Siglar v. State (1989), Ind., 541 N.E.2d 944 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellyson v. State“one of the prior crimes relied upon for sentencing was a 1986 [sic] second degree burglary, the equivalent of a class C felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. State“is not particularly aggravated ... [and] [tlhe incident caused little damage to property or person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stanek 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.