State v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1,962 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,972 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Gondor (2006), State v. Bush (2002)
4 federal appellate · 1,962 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 · Sumner v. Mata · State v. Perry · State v. Lytle · Murray v. Giarratano
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bradley · State v. Perry · State v. Jackson · State v. Thompkins
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 1,972 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the defense was prejudiced by counsel's ineffectiveness.”
206 later decisions quote this exact passage“there was such a denial or infringement of the person's rights as to render the judgment void or voidable under the Ohio Constitution or the Constitution of the United States.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall determine whether there are substantive grounds for relief”
35 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.