Jennings v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2008
2 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Spuehler v. State · Smith v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When counsel knows of the existence of a person or persons who possess information relevant to his client’s defense, and he fails to use due diligence to investigate that evidence, such a lack of industry cannot be justified as “strategic error.” The American Bar Association Standards for Criminal Justice, Defense Function 4-4.1, maintain that: “It is the duty of the lawyer to conduct a prompt investigation of the circumstances of the case and to explore all avenues leading to facts relevant to the merits of the case and the penalty in the event of conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crestani“absolute defense [which] unquestionably undermine[d] the reliability of the jury's verdict”
1 later decision 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.