552 So. 2d 1082 - Stevens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 788 So. 2d 917 - Porter v. State (2001), 781 So. 2d 1040 - Cherry v. State (2000)
1 federal appellate · 39 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 · Payton v. New York · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Scharffe v. Perkins · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable basis in the record to support the jury's [life] recommendation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the facts suggesting a sentence of death”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he failure to investigate [the defendant's] background, the failure to present mitigating evidence during the penalty phase, [and] the failure to argue on [the defendant's] behalf ... was not the result of a reasoned professional judgment. Trial counsel essentially abandoned the representation of his client during sentencing... . At the very least, any evidence presented and any plausible arguments made to the trial court could have provided the trial court with a basis to follow the jury's recommendation of a life sentence... . [T]rial counsel's inaction in the penalty phase of the trial amounted to a substantial and serious deficiency measurably below the standard for competent counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.