Ex Parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2017
8 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 · Ex Parte Duffy · Ex Parte Cruz · Hernandez v. Beto · Ex Parte Chambers
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e observe that in Ex parte Cruz, 739 S.W.2d 53 (Tex.Cr.App.1987), because the Supreme Court itself had excluded “ordinary sentencing” from the ambit of Strickland v. Washington, supra, a majority resorted to the standard retained in Ex parte Duffy, 607 S.W.2d 507 (Tex.Cr.App.1980). Cruz, supra, at 57-58 . That is, “counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance,” Duffy, at 514, n. 14, and 516, “whose services are gauged by the totality of the representation afforded,” Clinton & Wice, Assistance of Counsel in Texas, 12 St. Mary’s L.J. 1, at 8 (1980).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re RDB · Cevallos 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.