State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 728 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 748 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin (1983), State v. Calhoun (1999)
10 federal appellate · 728 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 Avery v. State of Alabama · State v. Lytle · Vaughn v. Maxwell · State v. Hester · Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden
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 748 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the petitioner bears the initial burden to submit evidentiary documents containing sufficient operative facts to demonstrate the lack of competent counsel and that the defense was prejudiced by counsel's ineffectiveness.”
72 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]efore granting a hearing on a petition * * * the court shall determine whether there are substantive grounds for relief.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not expressly mandate a hearing for every post-conviction relief petition and, therefore, a hearing is not automatically required.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.