Salisbury, B. A. 2000. Strongest evidence revisited. SE's null model of signal absence in characters is not treated as background knowledge, but as a reference point for evaluating a data set's phylogenetic signal in a tree-specific manner.
Simulations further indicate that jackknifing is often beneficial in both SE and parsimony analyses.
Iterative fixation of splits shows promise as an auxiliary procedure for SE and other methods that weight according to apparent homoplasy.