Stephens 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 the mixed standard of review applies to ineffective assistance of counsel claims
• recognizing \the trial court's superior vantage point in assessing the credibility of witnesses and in making findings of fact\
• noting that prejudice is legal conclusion which is accorded no deference
• “We recognize and honor the trial court’s superior vantage point in assessing the credibility of witnesses and in making findings of fact.”
• We recognize and honor the trial court’s superior vantage point in assessing the credibility of witnesses and in making findings of fact.”
• “The second prong of the ineffective assistance of counsel test focuses on the reliability of the proceeding and has never been subject to an abuse of discretion standard of review[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Connor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-06· cited 331×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-08· cited 228×
• Evans v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-01-04· cited 157×
• McLin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-09-12· cited 146×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 139×
• State v. Glatzmayer
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-03· cited 133×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-16· cited 128×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 117×
• State v. Coney
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-03-06· cited 114×
• Grosvenor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-03-25· cited 113×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-03· cited 108×
• Bruno v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-06· cited 103×
• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-07-07· cited 103×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 88×
• Darling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 84×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 83×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 83×

Cites

29 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×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Miller v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 1,743×
• United States v. Bajakajian
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-22· cited 1,395×
• Shaw v. Shaw
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-05-12· cited 487×
• LaGrand v. Stewart
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-01-16· cited 176×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 140×
• Rutherford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-17· cited 139×
• John Walter Castro, Sr. v. Ron Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-03-02· cited 136×
• Kennedy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-08· cited 134×
• Norman Darnell Baxter v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-02-09· cited 132×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-03-07· cited 121×
• Koon v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-25· cited 104×
• William E. Groseclose v. Ricky Bell, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-12-02· cited 76×
• Moody v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-04-16· cited 73×
• Robert Lewis Collier v. Tony Turpin, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-03-29· cited 68×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 68×
• Guzman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 61×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-13· cited 42×
• Quince v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-08· cited 37×