462 So. 2d 1040 - Falkner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2014
8 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 Jones v. Barnes · Frey v. United States · Andrews v. United States · 2 Cal. 3d 894 - People v. Williams · Nelson v. People
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court will not second-guess tactical decisions of counsel in deciding whether to call certain witnesses.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Whited v. State · Franklin v. State“'The decision not to call a particular witness is usually a tactical decision not constituting ineffective assistance of counsel. Goodman v. State , 387 So.2d 862 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, Ex parte Goodman , 387 So.2d 864 (Ala. 1980). "Defense counsel's failure to call certain witnesses is not sufficient grounds for a Sixth Amendment claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“United States v. Hughes , 635 F.2d 449 , 453 (5th Cir. 1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Franklin 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.