490 So. 2d 927 - Maxwell v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 190 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Maxwell v. Florida (1986), 768 So. 2d 1037 - Occhicone v. State (2000)
1 federal appellate · 190 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 · Wainwright v. Witt · Gardner v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida · Adams v. Texas
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the claimant must identify particular acts or omissions of the lawyer that are shown to be outside the broad range of reasonably competent performance under prevailing professional standards. Second, the clear, substantial deficiency shown must further be demonstrated to have so affected the fairness and reliability of the proceeding that confidence in the outcome is undermined. A court considering a claim of ineffectiveness of counsel need not make a specific ruling on the performance component of the test when it is clear that the prejudice component is not satisfied.”
123 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is highly doubtful that more complete knowledge of appellant's childhood circumstances, mental and emotional problems, school and prison records, etc., would have influenced the jury to recommend or the judge to impose a sentence of life imprisonment rather than death.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is almost always possible to imagine a more thorough job being done than was actually done.”
3 later decisions 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.