State v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
256 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 109 Ohio St. 3d 451 - State v. Tenace (2006), State v. Smith (2002)
256 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 · State v. Bradley · Jones v. Barnes · State v. Sanders · State v. Spivey
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ferguson · State v. Davis“genuine issue as to whether he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel on appeal”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.