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← 659 SO2D 1069 - Cherry v. State

Cherry v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

111
cited by 111 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

107 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000), 768 So. 2d 1037 - Occhicone v. State (2000)

107 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson 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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the `counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Pearce · Connor v. State
  2. “Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction or death sentence resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”
    13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Connor v. State · Ferrell v. State
  3. “The standard is not how present counsel would have proceeded, in hindsight, but rather whether there was both a deficient performance and a reasonable probability of a different result.”
    12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Rolling v. State · Brown 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.