Beard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2006
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hungate v. Hudson · 62 So. 2d 892 - Coco v. State · 95 So. 2d 525 - Smith v. State · Linsley v. State · Blacher v. Nat. Bank of Balto.
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.
“To hold that by availing himself of the constitutional right of cross-examination an accused thus forfeits his statutory right to the concluding argument to us seems beyond the realm of logic and reason. Such a rule would place upon a defendant the intolerable burden of electing to either refrain from the exercise of his constitutional right to cross-examine and thereby suffer adverse testimony to stand in the record unchallenged and un-impeached or forfeit the valuable procedural right to closing argument. Beard v. State, 104 So.2d 680 (Fla. 1st DCA 1958).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] defendant offering no testimony in his own behalf, except his own, shall be entitled to the concluding argument before the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hart v. State
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.