Vaughn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Robertson v. State (2006), Ex Parte Graves (2002)
64 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Harris v. New York · Franklin v. Lynaugh
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have said that basing an ineffective assistance claim on caselaw that is unsettled at the time of counsel’s actions 'would be to engage in the kind of hindsight examination of effectiveness of counsel the Supreme Court expressly disavowed in Strickland ’ ”); Calderon v. State, 950 S.W.2d 121, 133 (Tex.App.-El Paso1997, no pet.) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Chandler“there is no caselaw clearly supporting appellant's claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donald 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.