513 So. 2d 653 - Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2009
4 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 · 411 So. 2d 866 - Scott v. State · 433 So. 2d 974 - Scott 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.
“[T]he appellant defended against the murder charges by attempting to blame Kondian for the actual murder and minimize his own involvement. At the hearing below, however, appellant argued that his counsel should have presented the testimony of Richard Kondian as initially related by Kondian to the Rhode Island police when he was arrested. Kondian had told the police that he and Scott were at Alessi's house to effect a drug purchase when Alessi attempted to rape Kondian. When the two men began struggling, stated Kondian, Scott ran to his friend's defense. In his motion below, Scott contended that his defense counsel was prejudicially ineffective in failing to advance a "defense of others" theory based on Kondian's initial statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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