Steffensen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2023
15 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 · United States v. Decoster · State v. Jones · J & L Diversified Enterprises, Inc. v. Municipality of Anchorage
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When the superi- or court decides whether the defendant's petition states a prima facie case for relief, the superior court is obliged to view the factual allegations of the defendant's petition in the light most favorable to the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. LaBrake v. State · Angasan v. State“'Steffensen ... faults his attorney for failing to review the grand jury record.... However, Steffensen does not indicate how such a review ... would have yielded pertinent information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LaBrake 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.