Strickland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Anglin v. State (2017), 197 Ga. App. 63 - Strickland v. DeKalb Hospital Authority (1990)
4 federal appellate · 43 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Hines v. State · Brown v. State · Owens v. State · Brooks 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Brooks, the defendant's murder conviction was reversed because of the trial court's failure to charge the law of voluntary manslaughter. We noted that while words alone will not constitute sufficient provocation to reduce a crime from murder to manslaughter, the defendant in that case was not provoked merely by the victim's insulting words, but also by her adulterous conduct with which she taunted him prior to the shooting. We also noted that although the victim used words to make the defendant aware of her adultery, it was the victim's adulterous conduct, rather than her words describing that conduct, which served as sufficient provocation authorizing a charge on voluntary manslaughter. See O.C.G.A. § 16-5-2(a) ... Here, the victim’s alleged adulterous conduct was not only relevant, but critical to the voluntary manslaughter claim. Id. As this language makes clear, "words alone” do not constitute sufficient provocation — the exact statement made by the trial court in Hall's case. Words, describing adulterous conduct, however, may be sufficient. Yet, Hall has presented no evidence that Ms. Hall told Hall anything of the sort before he attacked her. Quite simply, because there was no evidence to support this aspect of voluntary manslaughter, Hall's counsel was not ineffective for failing to "prove” to the trial court that the charge was appropriate. Additionally, there is no reasonable probability that even with an instruction, the jury would have convicted Hall of the less”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Head“as the result of a sudden, violent, and irresistible passion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Shields v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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