Osborn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Graves (2003), DeVoss v. State (2002)
29 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 · Washington v. Texas · Webb v. Texas · Sims v. State · Washington v. Scurr
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to offer the testimony of witnesses, and to compel their attendance, if necessary, is in plain terms the right to present a defense, the right to present the defendant's version of the facts as well as the prosecution's to the jury so it may decide where the truth lies. Just as an accused has the right to confront the prosecution's witnesses for the purpose of challenging their testimony, he has the right to present his own witnesses to establish a defense. This right is a fundamental element of due process of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.