680 So. 2d 959 - Patrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2016
19 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · 629 So. 2d 6 - Hallford v. State · 571 So. 2d 1251 - Ex Parte Wilson · United States v. Caputo
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will-o'-the-wisp or rabbit trail matters of mitigation or defense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A mere difference of opinion between the appellant and [his] trial counsel as to trial strategy is insufficient to render counsel's performance ineffective under the Strickland [ v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984)] test. Stone v. State, 579 So.2d 702 (Ala.Cr.App. 1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“counsel may reasonably avoid presenting evidence or defenses for a number of sound reasons that lead him to conclude that the evidence or defense may do more harm than good.”
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.