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← 949 A.2d 395 - Chalk v. State

Chalk v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Waller v. Georgia · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · State v. Santos · Bustamante v. Wall

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “available to a convicted defendant who contends that his [or her] original conviction or sentence violated rights afforded to him [or her] under the state or federal constitution.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “bears the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that such relief is warranted * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.