568 So. 2d 864 - Weeks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Deboue v. Louisiana (1990), 629 So. 2d 6 - Hallford v. State (1993)
3 federal appellate · 37 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 · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. Cronic · Engle v. Isaac · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "[E]ven when the trial judge adopts proposed findings verbatim, the findings are those of the court and may be reversed only if clearly erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“since [Weeks] was black and all the members of the jury were black, along with the tendency of juries in Macon County to return not guilty verdicts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weeks v. Jones“whether, in light of all the circumstances, the identified acts or omissions were outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weeks v. Jones
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.