543 So. 2d 965 - State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably St. Amant v. 19TH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT (1996), State v. Kelly (1994)
41 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 · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States · State v. Sepulvado · Goldstein v. Garrity · 446 So. 2d 729 - State v. Prudholm
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such performance is ineffective when it can be shown that counsel made errors so serious that he was not functioning as the `counsel' guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is nothing more than the purposeless imposition of pain and suffering.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime”
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.