560 So. 2d 148 - Schmitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State (1991), 577 So. 2d 394 - Wilson v. State (1991)
87 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 · Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · Henderson v. Morgan
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel's performance falls within the range of reasonable professional assistance.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Payton v. State · Coleman v. State“before counsel can be deemed to have been ineffective, it must be shown (1) that counsel's performance was deficient and (2) that the defendant was prejudiced by counsel's mistakes.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. State · Sanders v. State“this Court will not set aside findings of a trial court sitting without a jury unless such findings are clearly erroneous.”
7 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.