Ritchie v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
4
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Rhode Island v. Innis · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[CJounsel's performance is presumed effective, and a defendant must offer strong and convincing evidence to overcome this presumption.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Curtis v. State · Baker v. State“consistently held that evidence of a difficult childhood warrants little, if any, mitigating weight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“but for counsel's errors the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Curtis v. State · Baker v. State
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.