Raymond R. Stone v. Richard L. Dugger, Tom Barton’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 1477 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2011
7 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Cronic · Eddings v. Oklahoma
Most-quoted passages
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“'Cronic represents a narrow exception which the Supreme Court has carved out of the general rule that a petitioner claiming ineffective assistance of counsel must demonstrate that he was prejudiced by specific alleged errors in his counsel's performance. Consequently, the burden of proof under Cronic is a very heavy one.' " Stone v. Dugger, 837 F.2d 1477 , 1479 (11th Cir.1988) (per curiam) (emphasis in original) (quoting Smith v. Wainwright, 777 F.2d 609 , 620 (11th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 477 U.S. 905, 106 S.Ct. 3275, 91 L.Ed.2d 565 (1986)), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 109 S.Ct. 1354, 103 L.Ed.2d 821 (1989); see also Cronic, 466 U.S. at 658, 104 S.Ct. at 2046 ("[B]ecause we presume that the lawyer is competent to provide the guiding hand that the defendant needs, the burden rests on the accused to demonstrate a constitutional violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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