Conner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Timberlake v. State (2001), Ben-Yisrayl v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Cronic
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By choosing not to object to ... the State's closing argument, defense counsel avoided drawing attention to testimony or argument unfavorable to the defendant. This was a legitimate strategy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Saylor v. State · Lambert v. State“'if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bunch v. State · Williams v. State“The record indicates that in the penalty and sentencing phases defense counsel's strategy was to humanize the defendant, an appropriate strategic decision. Defense counsel presented opening and closing arguments and testimony from several witnesses in order to present evidence of the defendant's background, including aleohol, drug, and family problems, his relationships, his good qualities, his employment history, and his relatively minor criminal history....”
2 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.