Rolling v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A fair assessment of attorney performance requires that every effort be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel's challenged conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel's perspective at the time.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 875 So. 2d 359 - Davis v. State · 905 So. 2d 42 - Dufour v. State

2. “[c]ounsel cannot be deemed ineffective merely because current counsel disagrees with trial counsel's strategic decisions. Moreover, strategic decisions do not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel if alternative courses have been considered and rejected and counsel's decision was reasonable under the norms of professional conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 875 So. 2d 359 - Davis v. State · 846 So. 2d 461 - Gore v. State

3. “surrounding this trial and that the prospective jurors had not been unduly affected by any pretrial publicity are supported by competent, substantial evidence and, accordingly, will not be disturbed by this Court. Applying the law to the trial court's factual findings, we conclude that Gore has not demonstrated how Hunt's strategic decision not to seek a change of venue was”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 846 So. 2d 461 - Gore v. State