Timberlake v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Timberlake v. State (2001), Ben-Yisrayl v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 80 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 · Hitchcock v. Dugger · Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co. · Sanders v. United States · Maldonado 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the error is inconsistent with substantial justice”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a matter of trial strategy, a defense counsel in a capital case may decide what is the best argument to present during the penalty phase.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Clark v. State · Saylor v. State“Given that defense counsel had an unsympathetic and apparently uncooperative defendant with a criminal history that spans three decades, they may have reasonably concluded that to argue any mitigation evidence would be ineffective and would open the door to damaging rebuttal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.