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558 So. 2d 401 - Squires v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2007
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Lambright v. Arizona · 450 So. 2d 208 - Squires v. State · 513 So. 2d 138 - Squires 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We thought if a jury heard he made nine confessions or somewhere in that area, that might dilute the veracity of the confessions. Somebody normally would not give nine confessions in a murder first trial. That has been my experience.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “counsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary.”
    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.