979 So. 2d 182 - Bowles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Crawford v. Washington · Ring v. Arizona · Knight 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“probably not working with what we would say is an intact brain”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Sec'y · In re Bowles“Trial counsel will not be held to be deficient when she makes a reasonable strategic decision to not present mental mitigation testimony during the penalty phase because it could open the door to other damaging testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Bowles told him that 'it bothers him [that] he killed six people who probably didn't deserve to die.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Desantis
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.