State v. Bays’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 281 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), State v. Arnett (2000)
2 federal appellate · 276 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 · Johnson v. Zerbst · Beck v. State of Ohio · State v. Bradley · Roviaro v. United States
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 281 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there exists a reasonable probability that, were it not for counsel's errors, the result of the trial would have been different.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant need not have a complete or technical understanding of the jury trial right in order to knowingly and intelligently waive it,”
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.