Neal v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Neal v. Puckett (2002), Myers v. State (1991)
91 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Rose v. Lundy · Hitchcock v. Dugger · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether counsel's performance was deficient, and, if so, (2) whether the deficient performance was prejudicial to the defendant in the sense that our confidence in the correctness of the outcome is undermined.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Roland v. State · Payton v. State“§ 99-39-11. Judicial examination of original motion; dismissal; filing answer. (1) The original motion, together with all the files, records, transcripts and correspondence relating to the judgment under attack, shall be examined promptly by the judge to whom it is assigned. (2) If it plainly appears from the face of the motion, any annexed exhibits and the prior proceedings in the case that the movant is not entitled to any relief, the judge may make an order for its dismissal and cause the prisoner to be notified. (Emphasis added)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. State · Jordan v. State“a claim procedurally alive `substantial[ly] showing denial of a state or federal right.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. State · Jordan 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.