Heath v. Vose’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Colon (2004), State v. Ledbetter (2005)
164 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Ornelas v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First, the defendant must show that counsel’s performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the ‘counsel’ guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larngar v. Wall“conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.