Craig v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Narvaiz v. State (1992), McFarland v. State (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 · Ex Parte Duffy · Ex Parte Cruz · Boyd v. State · Ex Parte Walker
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Did the attorney’s performance fail to constitute “reasonably effective assistance,” i.e., did the defense attorney’s representation fall below an objective standard of reasonableness under prevailing professional norms; and (2) if so, was there a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Simms v. State · Chapman v. State“(1) whether counsel was reasonably likely to render effective assistance, and (2) whether counsel reasonably rendered effective assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Monreal v. State · Chapman 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.