Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2014
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Lafler v. Cooper · Missouri v. Frye · 733 So. 2d 963 - Cottle v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are but a refinement of decisions already handed down, a clearer articulation of existing law that does not establish new constitutional rights: Both Lafler and Frye are properly viewed as “evolutionary refinements” to well-established rules governing ineffective assistance of counsel claims in the context of convictions predicated on pleas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perie v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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