5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 46 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 People v. Perry.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People v. Perry Anchor | green | “only if counsel's trial strategy is so unsound that he entirely fails to conduct meaningful adversarial testing of the state's case will ineffective assistance of counsel be found.” | 18 |
| 2 | People v. Perry | green | “through the lens of hindsight.” | 10 |
| 3 | People v. Perry | green | “made it clear that a reviewing court will be highly deferential to trial counsel on matters of trial strategy, making every effort to evaluate counsel's performance from his perspective at the time, rather than through the lens of hindsight.” | 8 |
| 4 | People v. Manning | green | “defendant must show that counsel's deficient performance rendered the result of the trial unreliable or the proceeding fundamentally unfair.” | 6 |
| 5 | People v. Smith | green | “decisions involving what evidence to present and which witnesses to call fall within the broad category of trial strategy and are not subject to a claim of ineffective assistance unless they deprive a defendant of a meaningful adversary proceeding.” | 4 |
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.