14 canonical passages across 11 cases, quoted by 196 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Brownlee v. State.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brownlee v. State Anchor | green | “we will not review issues not listed and argued in brief.” | 38 |
| 2 | Ex Parte White | green | “when the facts are undisputed and an appellate court is presented with pure questions of law, that court's review in a rule 32 proceeding is de novo.” | 37 |
| 3 | Jerry White v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | green | “we are not interested in grading lawyers' performances; we are interested in whether the adversarial process at trial, in fact, worked adequately.” | 22 |
| 4 | Lancaster v. State | green | “which, if true, entitles the petitioner to relief.” | 17 |
| 5 | McGahee v. State | green | “alabama courts have consistently held that even when a trial court adopts verbatim a party's proposed order, the findings of fact and conclusions of law are those of the trial court and they may be reversed only if they are clearly erroneous.” | 14 |
| 6 | Boyd v. State | green | “rule 32.6(b) requires that the petition itself disclose the facts relied upon in seeking relief.” | 14 |
| 7 | Ferguson v. State | green | “on direct appeal we reviewed the record for plain error; however, the plain-error standard of review does not apply to a rule 32 proceeding attacking a death sentence.” | 12 |
| 8 | Boyd v. State | green | “however, where there are disputed facts in a postconviction proceeding and the circuit court resolves those disputed facts, 'the standard of review on appeal ... is whether the trial judge abused his discretion when he denied the petition.” | 11 |
| 9 | Boyd v. State | green | “the general rules of preservation apply to rule 32 proceedings.” | 10 |
| 10 | Ex Parte Hill | green | “a judge who presided over the trial or other proceeding and observed the conduct of the attorneys at the trial or other proceeding need not hold a hearing on the effectiveness of those attorneys based upon conduct that he observed.” | 6 |
| 11 | Brownlee v. State | green | “we will not review issues not listed and argued in brief” | 4 |
| 12 | Ex Parte Ingram | green | “presided over ingram's capital murder trial and personally observed the performance of both lawyers throughout ingram's trial and sentencing.” | 4 |
| 13 | Daniel v. State | green | “unlike the general requirements related to civil cases, the pleading requirements for postconviction petitions are more stringent....” | 4 |
| 14 | Brownlee v. State | green | “will not review issues not listed and argued in brief.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.