461 So. 2d 109 - Ruffin v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 176 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. McNeil-P.P.C., Inc. (1992), 496 So. 2d 798 - Pope v. Wainwright (1986)
3 federal appellate · 176 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 · Jones v. Barnes · Enmund v. Florida · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp.
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have repeatedly held that appellate counsel cannot be considered ineffective for failing to raise issues which he was procedurally barred from raising because they were not properly raised at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not constitute a deficiency falling below prevailing professional norms.”
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.