Belcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 56th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Cronic · Holloway v. Arkansas · Bell Warden v. Cone
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fair assessment of attorney performance requires every effort be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel's challenged conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel's perspective at the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wade 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.