State v. Arguelles’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Lafferty (2001), State v. Irwin (1996)
29 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 · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Arizona v. Fulminante · Powers v. Ohio · Rock v. Arkansas
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that, but for his counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Silva · S.H. v. State“cannot substitute for proof of prejudice”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it is easier to dispose of an ineffectiveness claim on the ground of lack of sufficient prejudice, which we expect will often be so, that course should be followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Silva · State v. Horvath
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.