849 So. 2d 95 - Russell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 45 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Judicial scrutiny of counsel's performance [is] highly deferential.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Walker v. State · Leavitt v. State

2. “[N]ot being mentally retarded is not an aggravating factor necessary for imposition of the death penalty, and Ring has no application to an Atkins determination.”); State v. Lott, 97 Ohio St.3d 303 , 779 N.E.2d 1011 , 1015 (2002) (likening the issue to a trial court's determination of defendant's competency to stand trial); State v. Flores, 135 N.M. 759 , 93 P.3d 1264, 1268 (2004) (”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Bowling v. Commonwealth · 918 So. 2d 636 - Jordan v. State

3. “leave [s] to the State[s] the task of developing appropriate ways to enforce the constitutional restriction upon [their] execution of sentences.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Doss v. State · Havard v. State