739 So. 2d 425 - Finley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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

1. “must specifically allege facts showing that effective assistance of counsel was not in fact rendered, and he must allege with specificity the fact that but for such purported actions by ineffective counsel, the results of the trial court decision would have been different.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beall v. State · 885 So. 2d 83 - Jones v. State

2. “To merit an evidentiary hearing on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant's allegations of counsel's performance must raise `sufficient questions of fact on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beall v. State · 791 So. 2d 315 - McCuiston v. State

3. “A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is judged by the standard in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). The two inquiries under the Strickland standard are (1) whether counsel's performance was deficient, and, if so, (2) whether the deficient performance was prejudicial to the defendant in the sense that our confidence in the correctness of the outcome is undermined.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tompkins v. State