Swafford v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), 656 So. 2d 1253 - Harvey v. Dugger (1995)
32 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Scharffe v. Perkins
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After appellate counsel raises an issue, failing to convince this Court to rule in an appellant's favor is not ineffective performance.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for not convincing this Court that one of Swafford's statements to a traveling companion should not have been admitted at trial; (2) the state failed to prove sexual battery and counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to raise this issue on appeal; (3) victim impact evidence violated Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496 , 107 S.Ct. 2529 , 96 L.Ed.2d 440 (1987), South Carolina v. Gathers, 490 U.S. 805 , 109 S.Ct. 2207 , 104 L.Ed.2d 876 (1989), and Jackson v. Dugger, 547 So.2d 1197 (Fla.1989), and counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not raising this claim on appeal; and (4) jury instructions improperly shifted to Swafford the burden of showing life imprisonment to be the appropriate penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swafford 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.