State v. Myles’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably 428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss (1983), 505 So. 2d 714 - State v. Brooks (1987)
4 federal appellate · 63 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Furman v. Georgia · McMann v. Richardson · Lockett v. Ohio
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not sit to second-guess strategic and tactical choices made by trial counsel.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Messiah · State v. Daniels“A sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the jury finds beyond a reasonable doubt that at least one statutory aggravating circumstance exists and, after consideration of any mitigating circumstances, recommends that the sentence of death be imposed....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“reasonably competent assistance of an attorney acting as a diligent, conscientious advocate for his life.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Brooks · State v. Messiah
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.