State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Silvey (1995), State v. Parker (1994)
192 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Sanders v. State
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prove ineffective assistance for failure to call a witness, the defendant must show that: '(1) trial counsel knew or should have known of the existence of the witness; (2) the witness could be located through reasonable investigation; (3) the witness would testify; and (4) the witness's testimony would have produced a viable defense.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“to present a complete and coherent picture of the events that transpired.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“customary skill and diligence that a reasonably competent attorney would exercise under similar circumstances, and the failure to exercise such diligence is prejudicial.”
2 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.