Knox v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995), Brooks v. State (1990)
24 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 · 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State · 430 So. 2d 832 - Read v. State · United States v. Shaw · Leatherwood 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the first prong, the movant “must show that the counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense.” Here there is a strong presumption of competence. Under the second prong of the test, the movant must show that there is a “reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceedings would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.” The defendant must prove both prongs of the test.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“is difficult to establish, and appropriately so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reed is certainly the law in this state, particularly where the defendant has not taken the witness stand in his own behalf. Under the peculiar circumstances of this case, however, where the accused did not sit silent but personally subjected the victim to extensive cross-examination, his appearance and demeanor being very much a part of the information the jury received at trial, we cannot say that the argument in question was improper.”
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.