State v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Ervin (1992)
54 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Lockett v. Ohio
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Advice of counsel that a defendant not testify, without more, is not incompetent when it might be considered sound trial strategy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]any of the contentions and allegations in the pretrial motions, motion for new trial, and brief herein, ignore decisions of this Court which have repeatedly rejected the same arguments. The Court suggests that the scatter-load attacks do not comport with the rules of this Court and tend to obfuscate the ultimate issue of appellate review, namely, whether defendant received a constitutionally mandated fair trial free of reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Bowersox“After a review of the entire record, including listening to the tape, this Court concludes that the trial court's determination that defendant waived his rights knowingly and intelligently under the totality of the circumstances surrounding his confession is supported by substantial evidence and was not clearly erroneous. Consequently the admission of defendant's confession was not error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Bowersox
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.