471 So. 2d 27 - Lightbourne v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2019
1 federal appellate · 21 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 · 438 So. 2d 380 - Lightbourne v. State · 446 So. 2d 1059 - Jones v. State · 457 So. 2d 1367 - Magill v. State · 433 So. 2d 976 - Riley v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is clear that when the motion and record conclusively demonstrate that the movant is not entitled to relief, the motion may be denied without an evidentiary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The record clearly indicated that the credibility of the jailhouse informants was specifically attacked by defense counsel on cross examination and by pretrial motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the sentencing judge was in fact aware of many of the many mitigating factors that counsel on appeal is now presenting to the Court,”
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.