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508 So. 2d 1330 - Bellows v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2015

7 state decisions

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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 387 So. 2d 344 - Foster v. State · 444 So. 2d 956 - Barclay v. Wainwright

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To deny a motion for separate representation, where a risk of conflicting interest exists, is reversible error.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ortiz v. State · Johnson v. State
  2. “Despite the fact that Bellows [the defendant] and Collins [the state's witness and public defender's client in separate violation of probation proceedings] were not codefendants (only Bellows was charged with the sale of cocaine), the public defender was representing clients with significantly conflicting interests. The key is not whether the defendants are codefendants, but, rather, whether the public defender must serve a dual and adverse stewardship.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 991 So. 2d 971 - Scott v. State
  3. “The Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel contemplates legal representation that is effective and unimpaired by the existence of conflicting interests being represented by a single attorney.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ortiz 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.