Berget v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably English v. Cody (1998), Woods v. State (1998)
5 federal appellate · 28 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Enmund v. Florida · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Yagow v. United States · New Jersey v. New York
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The practical effect of this [the Oklahoma Court of Appeal’s] ruling is to force Mr. Breechen either to raise this claim on direct appeal, with new counsel but without the benefit of additional fact-finding, or have the claim forfeited under state law. This Hobson’s choice cannot constitute an adequate state ground under the controlling case law because it deprives Mr. Breechen of any meaningful review of his ineffective assistance claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“will not know with any degree of certainty what factual or legal issues may have been missed or not fully developed until there is sufficient opportunity to meet [with Mr. Paxton] under constitutional conditions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paxton v. State“This Court's preferred method still requires such a challenge [to the assistance of trial counsel] to be raised on direct appeal, not through a collateral attack, or it is waived.”
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.