State v. Hanna’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Hancock (2006), State v. Hale (2008)
1 federal appellate · 137 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The touchstone of analysis `is the fairness of the trial, not the culpability of the prosecutor.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“counsel's decision whether to call a witness falls within the rubric of trial strategy and will not be second-guessed by a reviewing court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Johnson“during the trial (and not after the trial as in Brady) , and no Brady violation exists.”
2 later decisions 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.