Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
55
cited by 55 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
11 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Cronic · Engle v. Isaac · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness must be whether counsel's conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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