State v. Tennyson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Litherland (2000), Layton City v. Carr (2014)
73 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 · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Ylst v. Nunnemaker · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey · Newland v. Georgia
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant must ... overcome the strong presumptions that counsel's performance fell 'within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance' and that 'under the cireumstances, the challenged action might be considered sound trial strategy'”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“we must decide whether [the] defendant was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel as a matter of law.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“this court will not second-guess trial counsel's legitimate strategic choices, however flawed those choices might appear in retrospect.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perry · State v. Wright
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.