State v. Keene’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 290 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 298 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), State v. Conway (2006)
4 federal appellate · 290 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · State v. Bradley
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 298 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A `reasonable probability' is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[d]eclining to interrupt the prosecutor's argument with objections, or failing to object to certain evidence, was not deficient performance, especially in a bench trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`unless the evidence is material to mitigation, exculpation or impeachment.'”
4 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.