Vasquez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1994
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Sharp v. State · Ex Parte Duffy
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to research the law regarding [the] defenses available, ... pursued a defense that was unavailable [ (self-defense) ], and did not urge the only defense raised by the evidence, namely, the defense of necessity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vasquez 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.