Freeman v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that claims that could have been raised on direct appeal cannot be relitigated under the guise of ineffective assistance of counsel
• holding that in a postconviction case the petitioner “bears the burden of establishing a prima facie case based upon a legally valid claim”
• holding that “ineffective assistance of [appellate] counsel cannot be argued where the issue was not preserved for appeal”
• explaining that ”[t]he defendant bears the bur den of establishing a prima facie case based upon a legally valid claim” and conclusory allegations are not sufficient
• noting that the defendant bears “the burden of alleging a specific, serious omission or overt act upon which the ineffective assistance of [appellate] counsel can be based”
• stating that “[m]ere conclusory allegations are not sufficient” to meet the defendant’s burden

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

286 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-08· cited 228×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-06-03· cited 169×
• Freeman v. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-07-31· cited 151×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-19· cited 118×
• Schoenwetter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-07-01· cited 109×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-13· cited 101×
• Doorbal v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-14· cited 96×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-01-31· cited 95×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-02· cited 93×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-01-06· cited 92×
• BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. Meeks
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-16· cited 87×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-23· cited 85×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 83×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-04-22· cited 82×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 82×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-14· cited 82×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-23· cited 81×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 74×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-22· cited 74×

Cites

70 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 404×
• State v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-05-04· cited 232×
• Pope v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-10-16· cited 230×
• Joseph James Blake v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-05-13· cited 191×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Patricia Ann Thomas Jackson v. Tommy Herring, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-01-09· cited 171×
• Peede v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-08-19· cited 142×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 140×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-08· cited 134×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-03-07· cited 121×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-08-31· cited 121×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-13· cited 120×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 115×
• Gudinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 111×
• State v. Enmund
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 104×