505 So. 2d 714 - State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
279 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 851 So. 2d 921 - State v. Tate (2003), 772 So. 2d 78 - State v. Mitchell (2000)
279 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Michigan v. Mosley · Harrison 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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“opinions may differ on the advisability of a tactic, hindsight is not the proper perspective for judging the competence of counsel's trial decisions. Neither may an attorney's level of representation be determined by whether a particular strategy is successful.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams · State v. Spears“concerned in the commission of a crime, whether present or absent, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, aid and abet in its commission, or directly or indirectly counsel or procure another to commit the crime.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chattman · State v. Smith“his right to remain silent. Michigan v. Mosley, 423 U.S. 96, 102 , 96 S.Ct. 321 , 46 L.Ed.2d 313 (1975). Whether police have”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hebert · State v. Baker
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.