Curtis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
February 2023
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Timberlake v. State · 357 Ill. App. 3d 530 - People v. Leroy · State v. Moore · Carter 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Witnesses may not testify to opinions concerning intent, guilt, or innocence in a criminal case; the truth or falsity of allegations; whether a witness has testified truthfully; or legal conclusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a decision regarding what witnesses to call is a matter of trial strategy which an appellate court will not second-guess.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. State“the strategy employed by [defense] counsel may have been a factor in those acequittals.”
1 later decision 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.