644 So. 2d 1302 - Wesson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2016
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 Strickland v. Washington · Tibbs v. Florida · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In order to prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show (1) that counsel's performance was deficient, and (2) that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. Strickland v. Washington , 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). 'In determining whether a defendant has established his burden of showing that his counsel was ineffective, we are not required to address both considerations of the Strickland v. Washington test if the defendant makes an insufficient showing on one of the prongs.' Thomas v. State , 511 So.2d 248 , 255 (Ala.Cr.App. 1987)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In Arnold v. State, 601 So.2d 145, 156 (Ala.Cr.App.1992), this Court stated: ‘“[A] motion for continuance should be granted where it is made in order to obtain a missing witness or evidence and the following requirements are met: “ ‘ “(1) the expected evidence must be material and competent; (2) there must be a probability that the evidence will be forthcoming if the case is continued; and (3) the moving party must have exercised due diligence to secure the evidence.” “ Ex parte Saranthus, 501 So.2d 1256, 1257 (Ala.1986).’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanford v. State“"It is well settled that a motion for a new trial is `addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and [his decision thereon] will not be revised on appeal unless it clearly appears that the discretion has been abused.' Nichols v. State, 267 Ala. 217, 228 , 100 So.2d 750, 760-61 (1958)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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