604 So. 2d 465 - Scott v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

cited by 50 later decisions

states following

July 2017

most recently cited

50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State (2002), In Re Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.851 (1993)

50 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Engle v. Isaac · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Proffitt v. Florida

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

“[f]irst ... the evidence "must have been unknown by the trial court, by the party, or by counsel at the time of trial, and it must appear that defendant or his counsel could not have known [of it] by the use of diligence." Second, the newly discovered evidence must be of such nature that it would probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Miller v. State · 90 So. 3d 794 - Pittman v. State
“in a death case involving equally culpable codefendants the death sentence of one codefendant is subject to collateral review under rule 3.850 when another codefendant subsequently receives a life sentence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Porter v. State · Bush v. State
“[appellate] counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceedings would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 857 So. 2d 861 - Wright v. State · 990 So. 2d 581 - Ridel 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.