492 So. 2d 355 - Buford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 619 So. 2d 285 - Sochor v. State (1993), 561 So. 2d 248 - Haliburton v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 · Enmund v. Florida · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Spaziano v. Florida · Cherek v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Appellant’s contention that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of the trial is repudiated by the fact that the jury recommended life in this case. Lewis v. State, 398 So.2d 432 (Fla.1981); Douglas v. State, 373 So.2d 895 (Fla.1979). Further, we refuse to find counsel ineffective by relying on the jury recommendation and failing to present further mitigating evidence to the judge. Lewis' ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Francis v. State · Spencer v. State“[U]nder Florida's bifurcated capital sentencing scheme, the sentencing judge and the reviewing court determine whether the defendant was convicted under circumstances which would prohibit imposition of the death sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henry v. State“Counsel's failure to move for a change of venue was a tactical decision and therefore not subject to attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rolling 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.