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733 So. 2d 963 - Cottle v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

98
cited by 98 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

96 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 98 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Missouri v. Frye (2012), Missouri v. Frye (2012)

96 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Santobello v. New York · 2 Cal. 4th 924 - In Re Alvernaz · United States v. Day

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

  1. “(1) counsel failed to communicate a plea offer or misinformed defendant concerning the penalty faced, (2) defendant would have accepted the plea offer but for the inadequate notice, and (3) acceptance of the State's plea offer would have resulted in a lesser sentence.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Murphy v. State · Dieudonne v. State
  2. “an inherent prejudice results from a defendant's inability, due to counsel's neglect, to make an informed decision whether to plea bargain, which exists independently of the objective viability of the actual offer.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 851 So. 2d 839 - Rudolf v. State · 909 So. 2d 521 - Dines v. State
  3. “`counsel failed to [adequately] communicate a plea offer . . ., that had he been correctly advised he would have accepted the plea offer, and that his acceptance of the state's plea offer would have resulted in a lesser sentence.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 948 So. 2d 820 - Hoswell v. State · 991 So. 2d 835 - Morgan 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.