Gamble v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably In the Interest of M.S. (2003), Stults v. State (2000)
72 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 278th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hernandez v. State · Jackson 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]efendant must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action might be considered sound trial strategy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood 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.