559 So. 2d 201 - Porter v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an allegation of ineffective counsel will not be permitted to serve as a means of circumventing the rule that habeas corpus proceedings do not provide a second or substitute appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bolender v. Dugger · 586 So. 2d 317 - Medina v. Dugger

2. “[w]e have long recognized that the failure to consider nonstatutory mitigating circumstances by a judge or jury is grounds for reversal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bobby Earl Lusk v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections · Lusk v. Singletary

3. “[i]t is only in the case of error that prejudicially denies fundamental constitutional rights that this Court will revisit a matter previously settled by the affirmance of a conviction or sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Porter v. State