Mann v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
September 1999
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Jones v. Barnes · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Thompson v. Oklahoma
Most-quoted passages
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“Legal contentions, like the currency, depreciate through over-issue. The mind of an appellate judge is habitually receptive to the suggestion that a lower court committed an error. But receptiveness declines as the number of assigned errors increases. Multiplicity hints at lack of confidence in any one ... [Experience on the bench convinces me that multiplying assignments of error will dilute and weaken a good case and will not save a bad one. (citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castro v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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