555 So. 2d 849 - Duest v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State (2002), Hunter v. State (1995)
1 federal appellate · 72 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 United States v. Bagley · Booth v. Maryland · Johnson v. Mississippi · Bundy v. Florida · 471 So. 2d 9 - Bundy 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of an appellate brief is to present arguments in support of the points on appeal. Merely making reference to arguments below without further elucidation does not suffice to preserve issues, and these claims are deemed to have been waived.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kearse v. State · Randolph v. State“The test for measuring the effect of the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence, regardless of whether such failure constitutes a discovery violation, is whether there is a reasonable probability that `had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Trial counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to raise meritless claims or claims that had no reasonable probability of affecting the outcome of the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones 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.