489 So. 2d 603 - Dunkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2017
2 federal appellate · 6 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Engle v. Isaac · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret
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.
“to this opinion. The same is attached hereto and made a part hereof. This court, as required by Rule 45A, A.R.A.P., has carefully reviewed the record in this cause and has considered each of the allegations of the petition for writ of error coram nobis and those specifically raised on appeal. I The appellant filed a plea to the jurisdiction at his trial and attacked Alabama's jurisdiction to prosecute him. This plea was denied by the trial judge at the appellant's trial and the appellant failed to raise this issue on original direct appeal. The only issue raised by the appellant concerned”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'The Sixth Amendment does not require errorless counsel or counsel judged ineffective by hindsight.' Hoppins v. State , 440 So.2d 1125 , 1127 (Ala. Crim. App. 1983). 'An adequate defense in the context of the constitutional right to counsel does not mean that counsel will not commit what may later prove to be tactical errors, and matters of trial strategy, in the absence of a clear showing of improper or inadequate representation, will be left to the judgment of trial counsel.' Bridges v. State , 391 So.2d 1086 , 1091 (Ala. Crim. App. 1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brownfield v. State“"Under the circumstances, counsel's decision not to pursue such a defense was the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, and not an error which could be viewed as a deficiency in professional performance. Certainly, such conduct cannot be judged as an error `so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel" guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.' Strickland [ v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052, 2064 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984) ]."”
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.