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← 323 GAAPP 689 - Pruitt v. State

Pruitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 2020
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Suggs v. State · Towry v. State · 274 Ga. App. 704 - Currid v. DeKalb State Court Probation Department · 296 Ga. App. 795 - Daniels 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[o]ur requirements for appellate briefs were created not to provide an obstacle, but to aid parties in presenting arguments in a manner most likely to be fully and efficiently comprehended by this Court; a party will not be granted relief should we err in deciphering a brief which fails to adhere to the required form. 11”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Because [Coleman’s] motion was based on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, the trial court was required to apply the two-pronged test set forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U. S. 668 ( 104 SCt 2052 , 80 LE2d 674) (1984), to determine whether counsel’s performance was deficient, and, if so, whether [Coleman] was prejudiced by the deficiency”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.