7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 120 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Williams v. State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Williams v. State Anchor | green | “an appellant's failure to satisfy one prong of the strickland test negates a court's need to consider the other prong.” | 69 |
| 2 | Villa v. State | green | “ounsel's alleged deficiency must be affirmatively demonstrated in the trial record.” | 12 |
| 3 | Thompson v. State | green | “a substantial risk of failure accompanies an appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal.” | 11 |
| 4 | Jimenez, Ex Parte Rosa Estela Olvera | green | “the mere fact that another attorney might have pursued a different tactic at trial does not suffice to prove a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.” | 11 |
| 5 | Lopez v. State | green | “ounsel's deficiency must be affirmatively demonstrated in the trial record; the court must not engage in retrospective speculation.” | 9 |
| 6 | McDonald v. State | green | “a trial court abuses its discretion when its decision is so clearly wrong as to lie outside that zone within which reasonable persons might disagree.” | 5 |
| 7 | Shaw v. State | green | “defensive instruction is only appropriate when the defendant's defensive evidence essentially admits to every element of the offense including the culpable mental state, but interposes the justification to excuse the otherwise criminal conduct.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.