608 So. 2d 778 - Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), 748 So. 2d 1028 - Stephens v. State (1999)
27 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 · Giglio v. United States · Caldwell v. Mississippi · United States v. Henry
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“virtually no preparation for the penalty phase”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“). [12] Barbas apparently provided sufficient evidence for the trial court to at least find the existence of three mitigating circumstances in favor of Stewart: (1) murder committed while under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance; (2) substantially impaired capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law; and (3) age at the time of the offense (twenty-one). The trial court also found”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Many of these claims are exactly the type of hindsight second-guessing that Strickland condemns, and even those matters asserted as significant omissions would have been mere exercises in futility, with no legal basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.