Potter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Smith v. State (1997), Miller v. State (1998)
43 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 · Blockburger v. United States · Davis v. State · Spranger v. State · Barany 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“choosing a strategy which, at the time and under the cireumstances, he or she deems best.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Heyen v. State · Glotzbach v. State“In order to establish that counsel's failure to object to a jury instruction was ineffective assistance of counsel, [Walker] must first prove that a proper objection would have been sustained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State · Lambert v. State“must prove that the failure to object was unreasonable and resulted in sufficient prejudice such that there exists a reasonable probability the outcome would have been different”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State · Lambert 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.