State v. Strain’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2025
18 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 · State v. Dunn · State v. Templin · State v. Tennyson · Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Price · State v. Kinross“in cases in which it is easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice, we will do so without addressing whether counsel's performance was professionally unreasonable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When, as in this case, the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is raised for the first time on appeal, we resolve the issue as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Price
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.