909 So. 2d 160 - Covington v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

cited by 21 later decisions

states following

June 2009

most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Vielee v. State · 577 So. 2d 390 - Anderson v. State · 521 So. 2d 914 - Reynolds v. State · 728 So. 2d 565 - Kirksey v. State · 725 So. 2d 764 - Templeton v. State

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“strong but rebuttable presumption that an attorney's performance falls within a wide range of reasonable professional assistance and that the decisions made by trial counsel are strategic.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Curry v. State · Williams v. State
“where a party offers only his affidavit, then his ineffective assistance claim is without merit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 930 So. 2d 1264 - Thomas v. State · 959 So. 2d 598 - Knight v. State
“that his counsel's performance was so deficient as to constitute prejudice, and that but for the counsel's errors the outcome in the trial court would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 922 So. 2d 43 - Smith 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.