Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Richardson v. State · Spivey v. State · Sanchez v. State · Saylor 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ounsel's performance is presumed effective, and a defendant must offer strong and convincing evidence to overcome this presumption.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ounsel's failure to interview or depose State's witnesses does not, standing alone, show deficient performance. The question is what additional information may have been gained from further investigation and how the absence of that information prejudiced his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“person who breaks and enters the building or structure of another person, with intent to commit a felony in it, commits burglary as a C felony [and] charge is elevated to a class A felony when a victim suffers bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhoton 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.