State v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1,012 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,018 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Phillips (1995)
3 federal appellate · 1,012 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 State v. Long · State v. Lytle · State v. Wolery · Costello v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · State v. Hester
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bradley · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 1,018 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the fact that there was another and better strategy available does not amount to a breach of an essential duty to his client.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Debatable trial tactics do not constitute a deprivation of the effective assistance of counsel.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of appellee's major arguments was that there should have been an instruction on the lesser-included offense of attempted voluntary manslaughter. Even if the defendant did elicit some evidence of mitigating circumstances (fit of anger), he still had the right to intentionally waive a jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of attempted voluntary manslaughter. Having elicited some evidence in mitigation of attempted murder, the court had the duty to instruct on the lesser-included offense, but this in no way affected defendant's concomitant right, through his counsel, to waive the instruction.”
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.