State v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably State v. Dulany (1989), State v. Newlon (1982)
2 federal appellate · 81 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · State v. Cuckovich · State v. Parker · State v. Butler
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it contains all the essential elements of the offense... and clearly apprises defendant of the facts constituting the offense in order to enable him to meet the charge and to bar further prosecution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL · State v. Garrett“The argument that the exclusion of jurors opposed to capital punishment substantially increases the risk of conviction has been continually rejected because the evidence offered in support was considered too tentative and fragmentary, (citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stokes“[a]killing through the use of a deadly weapon on a vital part of the body of the victim is sufficient to permit a finding of intent to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bolder
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.