State v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Ketterer (2006), 157 Ohio App. 3d 261 - State v. Tarbay (2004)
193 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Alabama v. Smith · State v. Xie · State ex rel. Stern v. Mascio
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the indictment, information, or complaint contains sufficient allegations to state a felony offense and the defendant pleads no contest, the court must find the defendant guilty of the charged offense.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“To prevail on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim in the context of a guilty plea, the defendant must show that (1) his counsel's performance was deficient and (2) there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the defendant would not have pled guilty.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“by pleading no contest to the indictment, [an] appellant is foreclosed from challenging the factual merits of the underlying charge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.