801 So. 2d 906 - Downs v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
59
cited by 59 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gregg v. Georgia · Doyle v. Ohio · Furman v. Georgia
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the deficiency of that performance compromised the appellate process to such a degree as to undermine confidence in the fairness and correctness of the appellate result.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reaches down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] legally sufficient motion to disqualify must demonstrate `some actual bias or prejudice so as to create a reasonable fear that a fair trial cannot be had.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.