696 So. 2d 144 - State v. Pendelton’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 868 So. 2d 877 - State v. Allen (2004), State v. McIntyre (1998)
42 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Blockburger v. United States · State v. Oliveaux · State v. Weiland
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's error, his sentence would have been different,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or purposes of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, the filing of pretrial motions is squarely within the ambit of the attorney's trial strategy, and counsel is not required to engage in futility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Louisiana courts have consistently held that a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for second degree murder does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. State v. Graham, 422 So.2d 123 (La.1982), appeal dismissed, Graham v. Louisiana, 461 U.S. 950 , 103 S.Ct. 2419 , 77 L.Ed.2d 1309 (1983); State v. Pendelton, 96-367 (La.App. 5 Cir. 5/28/97) , 696 So.2d 144 , writ denied, 97-1714 (La.12/19/97), 706 So.2d 450 ; State v. Hill, 98-1087 (La.App. 5 Cir. 8/31/99) , 742 So.2d 690 , writ denied, 99-2848 (La.3/24/00), 758 So.2d 147 .”
1 later decision 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.