Butler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Reyes v. State (1993), Wilkerson v. State (1986)
99 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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Cronic · MacKenna v. Ellis · Ex Parte Duffy
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [T]he Supreme Court offered no mechanistic formula: ‘The 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.’ ... Under Strickland there are two tests a defendant who seeks relief must meet. ‘First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. ... Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense.’ Id. Elaborating on the second showing the defendant must make, the Court said: ‘The defendant must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The 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”. Strickland, supra, 466 U.S. at 692 , 104 S.Ct. at 2067 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Culver v. State · Ex Parte Welborn“No physical evidence linked appellant to the robbery. Only being stopped for speeding near the scene of the offense led to his arrest. He was convicted based on the identification testimony of only one witness, the complainant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perez 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.