796 So. 2d 610 - Light v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jones v. State · 748 So. 2d 1028 - Stephens v. State · 453 So. 2d 1102 - Downs v. State · Bryant v. Scott
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That is, the [postconviction court] is not examining simply whether [it] believes the evidence presented as opposed to contradictory evidence presented at trial, but whether the nature of the evidence is such that a reasonable jury may have believed it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that particular investigations are unnecessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“capacity to determine the credibility of the witnesses in a postconviction motion is more limited when the [court] is examining whether the failure to call a particular witness prejudiced the defendant.”
1 later decision 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.