Cartwright v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010 · most notably Maynard v. Cartwright (1988), State v. Powell (1990)
12 federal appellate · 20 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 · Ake v. Oklahoma · Jones v. Barnes · Evitts v. Lucey · Teague v. Tennessee
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Legal contentions, like the currency, depreciate through over-issue. The mind of an appellate judge is habitually receptive to the suggestion that a lower court committed an error. But receptiveness declines as the number of assigned errors increases. Multiplicity hints at lack of confidence in any one ... [Experience on the bench convinces me that multiplying assignments of error will dilute and weaken a good case and will not save a bad one. (citation omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State · Mann v. State“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Berget v. State · Paxton v. State“... In the present ease, we recognize that different trial counsel may have spent more time preparing the case, filed more pre-trial motions, asked more questions during jury selection, presented more evidence and made more objections during trial. Another appellate attorney may have raised more assignments of error on direct appeal. “There are countless ways to provide effective assistance in any given case. Even the best criminal defense attorneys would not defend a particular client in the same way.” (cite omitted). However, our review of this issue cannot be governed by hindsight, but must focus on whether appellant’s attorneys provided reasonably effective assistance. We have examined each of propositions of error alleged above, individually and in the aggregate, and conclude that appellant has failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s alleged unprofessional errors, the results of either the trial or the direct appeal would have been dif- ■ ferent. (cite omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castro 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.