Downs v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

cited by 83 later decisions

states following

October 2018

most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 774 So. 2d 637 - Rutherford v. Moore (2000), 759 So. 2d 650 - Thompson v. State (2000)

1 federal appellate · 80 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona

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

“[T]here is no reason for a court deciding an ineffective assistance claim ... to address both components of the inquiry if the defendant makes an insufficient showing on one.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Freeman v. State · Ferrell v. State
“When jury instructions are proper, the failure to object does not constitute a serious and substantial deficiency that is measurably below the standard of competent counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Sireci v. State · 808 So. 2d 175 - Floyd v. State
“First, the defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel" guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 801 So. 2d 59 - Stewart v. State · 794 So. 2d 553 - Ventura 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.