496 So. 2d 798 - Pope v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), State v. Joyner (1993)
5 federal appellate · 166 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Gardner v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida · Clark v. State · Williams 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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“first, whether the alleged omissions are of such magnitude as to constitute a serious error or substantial deficiency falling measurably outside the range of professionally acceptable performance and, second, whether the deficiency in performance compromised the appellate process to such a degree as to undermine confidence in the correctness of the result.”
89 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Douglas v. State · Taylor v. State“as long as the significance of [the jury's] recommendation is adequately stressed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“At first blush, the petitioner’s cumulative impact argument may appear very persuasive; however, after reviewing the entire record and all the challenged comments which arguably could have influenced the jury in its determination of guilt, we find that the comments taken individually or as a whole did not so infect the proceeding as to deprive the petitioner of his fundamental right to a fair trial.”
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.