755 So. 2d 616 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 state decisions

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

1. “bears the burden of proving that counsel's representation was unreasonable under prevailing professional norms and that the challenged action was not sound strategy.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Phillips v. State · Valle v. State

2. “there is `a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance,'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Valle v. State · 972 So. 2d 912 - Sipple v. State

3. “We also conclude that the circuit court was correct in its conclusion that the failure to present additional lay witnesses to describe Brown's childhood abuse and low intelligence was not prejudicial to Brown in accord with the requirements of Strickland . Such evidence would have been cumulative in that substantially the same information had been presented by other witnesses and was potentially harmful to Brown's case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 885 So. 2d 245 - Pietri v. State