Ex Parte Cruz’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably McFarland v. State (1996), Hernandez v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 146 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Cuyler v. Sullivan · McMann v. Richardson · MacKenna v. Ellis
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this standard the sufficiency of an attorney’s assistance is gauged by the totality of the representation of the accused. This constitutional right to counsel does not mean errorless counsel or counsel whose competency is to be judged by hindsight. The right to effective assistance of counsel means counsel reasonably likely to render reasonably effective assistance of counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. State · Thomas v. State“when it is shown that the defendant used or exhibited a deadly weapon ... during the commission of a felony offense.... Upon affirmative finding that the defendant used or exhibited a deadly weapon during the commission of an offense ... the trial court shall enter the finding in the judgment of the court. Upon an affirmative finding that the deadly weapon the defendant used or exhibited was a firearm, the court shall enter that finding in its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. State“reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Thomas 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.