State v. Speer’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably State v. Carter (1989), State v. Verde (1989)
40 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 · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · State v. Knight · State v. Tillman · State v. Baker
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 40 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gardner · Bundy v. Deland“(1) A person commits aggravated assault if he commits assault as defined in Section 76-5-102 and he: (a) intentionally causes serious bodily injury to another; or (b) uses a dangerous weapon as defined in Section 76-1-601 or other means or force likely to produce death or serious bodily injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tinoco · State v. Alires“In determining whether a 'substantial right of the party is affected,”
2 later decisions 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.