State v. Riechmann’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
72
cited by 72 later decisions
2
states following
October 2019
most recently cited
70 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · Taylor v. Louisiana
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attorney has a strict duty to conduct a reasonable investigation of a defendant's background for possible mitigating evidence.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mungin v. State · Peterka v. State“an independent review of the trial court's legal conclusions, while giving deference to the trial court's factual findings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. State · State v. Pearce“whether `the favorable evidence could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the verdict.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rose v. State · Carmona 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.