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617 So. 2d 825 - Highsmith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
June 2011
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Nelson v. State (2004), Marquard v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections (2005)

1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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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 493 So. 2d 489 - Toler v. State · Sorgman v. State · 487 So. 2d 32 - Majewski v. State · 502 So. 2d 494 - Swain v. State · Robinson v. State

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

  1. “an explanation as to how the admission of this evidence prejudiced the outcome of the trial.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the failure to call witnesses can constitute ineffective assistance of counsel if the witnesses may have been able to cast doubt on the defendant's guilt, and the defendant states in his motion the witnesses' names and the substance of their testimony, and explains how the omission prejudiced the outcome of the trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.