State v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 220 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), State v. Conway (2006)
7 federal appellate · 205 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 · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley · Payne v. Tennessee · Booth v. Maryland
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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Sixth Amendment violation does not occur `unless and until counsel's performance is proved to have fallen below an objective standard of reasonable representation and, in addition, prejudice arises from counsel's performance.' * * *”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Concessions of guilt by defense counsel must be considered on a case-by-case basis. All of the facts, circumstances, and evidence must be considered.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“there exists a reasonable probability that, were it not for counsel's errors, the result of the trial would have been different.”
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.