State v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Warholic (2006), State v. Duran (2006)
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 · Berger v. United States · State v. Singh · 29 Cal. 4th 381 - People v. Boyette · United States v. Akitoye
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is improper for a prosecutor to accuse a defendant of lying.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the severity and pervasiveness of misconduct; (2) the significance of the misconduct to the central issues in the case; (3) the strength of the State’s evidence; (4) the use of cautionary instructions or other curative measures; (5) the extent to which the defense invited the misconduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matlock · State v. Boggs
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.