Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]his Court will only under exceptional circumstances second guess counsel on matters of trial strategy.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nitin Malik v. State of Mississippi · Aaron Lyons v. State of Mississippi

2. “Basic defense in this case required complete investigation to ascertain every material fact about this case, favorable and unfavorable. It required familiarity with the scene, and the setting. It required through his own resources and process of the court learning the names of, and interviewing every possible eyewitness, and getting statements from each. It required prior to trial learning all information held by the state available to the defense through pre-trial discovery motions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 926 So. 2d 188 - Johns v. State

3. “[c]ounsel's choice of whether or not to file certain motions, call witnesses, ask certain questions, or make certain objections fall[s] within the ambit of trial strategy and will not stand as support for an ineffective[-]assistance[-]of[-]counsel claim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nitin Malik v. State of Mississippi