454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 347 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 362 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Stringer v. Black (1992), Dufour v. Mississippi (1985)
1 federal appellate · 347 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 Strickland v. Washington · Engle v. Isaac · Hoffman v. United States · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Enmund v. Florida
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 362 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction or death sentence resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Doss v. State“might be considered sound trial strategy.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Gordon v. State“In any case presenting an ineffectiveness claim, the performance inquiry must be whether counsel's assistance was reasonable considering all the circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. State · Walker v. State
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.