520 So. 2d 278 - Stano v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 769 So. 2d 974 - Asay v. State (2000), Johnson v. State (2011)
52 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Tollett v. Henderson · Estelle v. Smith · Booth v. Maryland
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Stano] assures me that those statements were made voluntarily, they were made competently, and intelligently after warning of his rights and that, therefore, there does not exist a good possibility that either of his admissions could be suppressed on a hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. State · Stano v. Dugger“That current counsel, through hindsight, would now do things differently than original counsel did is not the test for ineffectiveness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The record also demonstrates that Stano made his guilty pleas freely and voluntarily after discussions with trial counsel and that Stano had no questions to ask counsel before he pled guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.