929 So. 2d 491 - Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions

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

1. “If we were to evaluate the cumulative effect of the ineffective assistance of counsel claims, we would find that Brooks's substantial rights were not injuriously affected. See Bryant and Rule 45, Ala.R.App.P.”

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Whited v. State · Hunt v. State

2. “"[T]he Supreme Court's decision in Ring [ v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002),] does not apply retroactively to cases on collateral review. See McWilliams v. State, 897 So.2d 437 (Ala.Crim.App. 2004). The United States Supreme Court in Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348 , 124 S.Ct. 2519 (2004), specifically held that its decision in Ring did not apply to death cases that were already final at the time that the decision was announced."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hunt v. State · 962 So. 2d 272 - Burgess v. State

3. “In reviewing Brooks’s claim of prejudice under Strickland we have independently reweighed the aggravating circumstances that were found in this case against the alleged mitigating circumstances that were not presented at trial. We, like the circuit court, are confident that death was the appropriate sentence in this case and that any of the alleged mitigating evidence that was not presented at trial but that was presented at the Rule 32 proceedings would not have [ajffected the result.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brooks v. Commissioner · Christopher Eugene Brooks v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections