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964 So. 2d 638 - Middlebrook v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Polk County v. Dodson · Brown v. State · Sellers v. Sanders · 806 So. 2d 1148 - Smith 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[f]or failure to investigate to [rise] to the level of ineffective assistance of counsel, the defendant must state with particularity what the investigation would have revealed and how it would have altered the outcome.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “duty to fairly, even if that means pessimistically, inform the client of the likely outcome of a trial based upon the facts of the case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.