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← 709 NW2D 128 - State v. Straw

State v. Straw’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

75
cited by 75 later decisions
1
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

75 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · State v. Irish · McGurk v. Stenberg

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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he or she would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted on going to trial.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “(1) his trial counsel failed to perform an essential duty, and (2) this failure resulted in prejudice.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “A defendant establishes prejudice by showing 'there is a reasonable probability that, but for the counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
    8 later decisions 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.