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.
“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“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“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
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