State v. Bullock’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Holgate (2000), State v. Litherland (2000)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 64 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 · Ohio v. Roberts · California v. Green · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Barber v. Page
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be treated as a conscious waiver and should preclude further consideration of the issue.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. J.C. v. State · State v. Ott“[I]f trial counsel's actions amounted to an active, as opposed to a passive, waiver of an objection, we may decline to consider the claim of plain error.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Morgan · State, Ex Rel. Pn“[If a party through counsel has made a conscious decision to refrain from objecting ..., we will then decline to save that party from the error.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. J.C. v. State · State v. Bluff
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.