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← 79 OHIOST3D 53 - State v. Henness

State v. Henness’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

272
cited by 272 later decisions
4
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 255 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 272 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Sanders (2001), State v. Trimble (2009)

11 federal appellate · 255 state decisions

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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 · Edwards v. Arizona · Davis v. United States · Morris v. Slappy · Geders v. United States

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

  1. “I think I need a lawyer, because if I tell everything I know, how do I know I'm not going to wind up with a complicity charge?”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Hall, Unpublished Decision (8-14-2006) · State v. Bruhn, Unpublished Decision (4-28-2004)
  2. “break down in the attorney-client relationship of such magnitude as to jeopardize the defendant's right to the effective assistance of counsel.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Jackson, Unpublished Decision (5-26-2006) · State v. Brown
  3. “[T]o discharge a court-appointed attorney, the defendant must show a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship of such magnitude as to jeopardize the defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel. The term of art `actual conflict' refers not to a personality conflict but to a conflict of interest. The Sixth Amendment does not guarantee `rapport' or a `meaningful relationship' between client and counsel.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Bush · State v. New, Unpublished Decision (6-13-2006)

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.