507 So. 2d 94 - Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007), Neal v. State (1988)
33 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 · Anders v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Irvin v. Dowd · 430 So. 2d 832 - Read 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at a minimum, counsel has a duty to interview potential witnesses and to make independent investigation of the facts and circumstances of the case.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“`First' said the Supreme Court, `the defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient.... Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]ome Sixth Amendment violations ... are so flagrant that no punctilious calibration of prejudice is necessary.”
2 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.