Strickland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2018
18 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 339th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Minnesota v. Dickerson · Romero v. State · Heitman v. State · Russell 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Officer Dunn began his pat-down at the top of appellant’s right front pants pocket. He explained that as he moved his hand down, he felt a “round tubular object.” He knew the moment he touched it the object was not a weapon. The object made contact with what he thought was a lighter, and he heard a “cling,” leading him to conclude that the object was glass. He noticed that it was a little more than two inches long and the approximate diameter of crack pipes he had come across in the past and, when he moved his fingers across it, he discovered that one end was smooth and one end was rough and broken. Officer Dunn “recognized the object to be a crack pipe.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia 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.