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← 327 GAAPP 532 - Sowell v. State

Sowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

41 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miller v. State · Chapman v. State · State v. Johnston

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “will uphold a trial court's factual determinations with respect to claims of ineffective assistance of counsel; however, a trial court's legal conclusions in this regard are reviewed de novo .”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “deficient and that the deficient performance so prejudiced [him] that there is a reasonable likelihood that, but for counsel's errors, the outcome of the trial would have been different.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Generally, a videotape is admissible where the operator of the machine which produced it, or one who personally witnessed the events recorded testifies that the videotape accurately portrayed what the witness saw take place at the time the events occurred.”
    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.