Timberlake v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 106 state decisions

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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A strong presumption arises that counsel rendered adequate assistance and made all significant decisions in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment.”

   23 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Michael Lindsey v. State of Indiana · Dorian Lee v. State of Indiana

2. “. consider the totality of an attorney's performance to determine whether the client received constitutionally adequate assistancel,] ... [and] should be particularly sensitive to the need for separating the wheat from the chaff in appellate advocacy, and should not find deficient performance when counsel's choice of some issues over others was reasonable in light of the facts of the case and the precedent available to counsel when that choice was made.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roderick Vandrell Lewis v. State of Indiana · Emerson v. State

3. “[a] defendant may establish that his appellate counsel's performance was deficient where counsel failed to present a significant and obvious issue for reasons that cannot be explained by any strategic decision.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Imel v. State · Benson v. State