Deck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Deck v. Missouri (2005), Anderson v. State (2006)
3 federal appellate · 165 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 · Gregg v. Georgia · Murray v. Carrier · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Of course, as Strickland recognized, 466 U.S. at 694 . 697. 104 S.Ct. 2052 . this theoretical difference in the two standards of review will seldom cause a court to grant post-conviction relief after it has denied relief on direct appeal, for, in most cases, an error that is not outcome-determinative on direct appeal will also fail to meet the Strickland test. Nonetheless, Strickland cautions that the distinction in the standards of review is important because there are a small number of cases in which the application of the two tests will produce different results. Id. at 697 , 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 . 80 L.Ed.2d 674 .””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not the propriety of the trial court's actions with regard to an alleged error, * but whether defendant has suffered a genuine deprivation of his right to effective assistance of counsel ....”
3 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.