735 So. 2d 1099 - Colenburg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 863 So. 2d 776 - Wilcher v. State (2003), 847 So. 2d 871 - Aguilar v. State (2002)
113 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 · 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State · McFee v. State · 430 So. 2d 832 - Read v. State · Sellers v. Sanders
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the record affirmatively shows ineffectiveness of constitutional dimensions, or (2) the parties stipulate that the record is adequate to allow the appellate court to make the finding without consideration of the findings of fact of the trial judge.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“so lacking in confidence that it becomes apparent or should be apparent that it is the duty of the trial judge to correct it so as to prevent a mockery of justice.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. State · Taylor v. State“A court of appeals only acts upon matters contained in the official record and not upon assertions in briefs.”
4 later decisions 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.