Thacker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 263rd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts · Richardson v. Marsh
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial counsel is not ineffective for failure to make meritless objections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re TNF
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.