Branch v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably 921 So. 2d 292 - Spicer v. State (2006), Havard v. State (2006)
1 federal appellate · 48 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Williams v. Taylor · Berger v. United States · Lockett v. Ohio
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f new counsel on direct appeal is required to assert collateral claims, there must be an opportunity to submit extraneous facts and discovery and evidentiary hearing to develop and prove the allegations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“counsel entirely fails to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hall v. State · Walker v. State
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.