422 So. 2d 827 - Straight v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably 490 So. 2d 927 - Maxwell v. Wainwright (1986), Straight v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. (1986)
22 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Knight v. State · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades Inc · Straight v. State · Doe v. Delaware
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]efense counsel viewed evidence of mitigating circumstances as fundamentally damaging to the integrity of his client's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.