State v. Frame’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Carter (1989), Archuleta v. Galetka (2011)
1 federal appellate · 50 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 · Medlin v. Mann · Stover v. Rau · State v. Wood · Codianna v. Morris
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.
“[A] court need not determine whether counsel's performance was deficient before examining the prejudice suffered by defendant as a result of the alleged deficiencies... . If it is easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice, which we expect will often be so, that course should be followed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gardner · State v. Speer“(1) his counsel rendered an objectively deficient performance, demonstrated by specific acts or omissions; and (2) counsel’s error prejudiced defendant, i.e., a “reasonable probability” exists that, but for counsel’s acts or omissions, the verdict would have been more favorable to defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“overcome the strong presumption that trial counsel rendered adequate assistance and exercised reasonable professional judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morgan · Parsons v. Barnes
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.