Quince v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Quince v. Florida · Esquivel v. McCotter · Suarez v. Dugger · 477 So. 2d 535 - Quince v. State · 414 So. 2d 185 - Quince v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Quince pled guilty to first-degree felony murder and burglary following the sexual battery and strangulation death of an eighty-two-year-old woman in her home. He waived a sentencing jury and the judge imposed the death penalty, which was affirmed on appeal. Id. Quince filed a motion for postconviction relief in circuit court pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850, and while the motion was pending the Governor signed a death warrant. The circuit court issued a stay of execution, granted an evidentiary hearing, but denied relief, which was affirmed on appeal. Quince v. State, 477 So.2d 535 (Fla.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1132 , 106 S.Ct. 1662 , 90 L.Ed.2d 204 (1986). Quince subsequently filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal district court, which was denied following an evidentiary hearing. During the pendency of the appeal of the denial in federal circuit court, Quince became aware of litigation pending before this Court in Harich v. State, 542 So.2d 980 (Fla.1989) (hereinafter Harich 1 ), concerning the alleged conflict of interest in trial counsel Howard Pearl's concomitant service as a special deputy sheriff. See also Harich v. State, 573 So.2d 303 (Fla.1990), petition for cert. filed[cert. denied], 499 U.S. 985 , 111 S.Ct. 1645 , 113 L.Ed.2d 740 (1991)(trial court's finding of no conflict of interest following an evidentiary hearing affirmed on appeal). Quince filed a subsequent 3.850 motion in circuit court claiming conflict of interest ba”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quince v. State · Moore v. State“an evidentiary hearing on the conflict-of-interest issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quince 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.