State v. Mecham’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2021
14 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 · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Labron · State v. Buggs · State v. Ramirez
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether one crime is a lesser included offense of a greater crime under section 76-1-402, turns on the statutorily defined elements of the two crimes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jack · State v. Pierson“essentially an issue of statutory construction that we review for correctness, according no particular deference to the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[wle 'indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance; that is, the defendant must overcome the presumption that under the cireum-stances, the challenged action "might be considered sound trial strategy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diaz
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.