Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Tumulty v. State (1996), Taylor v. State (1997)
50 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 · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · McCarthy v. United States · Rauer v. United States
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] factual basis exists when there is evidence about the elements of the crime from which a court could conclude that the defendant is guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Cooper · State v. Drysdale“prevail simply by putting the State to its proof as though the case were being tried or appealed in the first instance. Instead, Weatherford must demonstrate that he was not an habitual offender under the laws of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Jones“there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different but for the defense counsel's inadequate representation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Matheney 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.