Mitchell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
86
cited by 86 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Thompson v. State · Hernandez v. State · Ex Parte Duffy · McFarland v. State
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his means that the appellant must show a reasonable probability that, but for his counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patterson v. State · Reyes v. State“[gjenerally the record on direct appeal will not be sufficient to show that counsel's representation was so deficient as to meet the first part of the Strickland standard. The reasonableness of counsel's choices often involves facts that do not appear in the appellate record. A petition for writ of habeas corpus usually is the appropriate vehicle to investigate ineffective-assistance claims”); Garcia v. State, 57 S.W.3d 436, 440 (Tex.Crim.App.2001) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re KK · Bone v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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