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Frank v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1935

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State (1954), Savage v. State (1943)

2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

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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 Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida · Lee v. State · Jenkins v. State · Hall v. State · Gantling v. State

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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As a whole, the evidence is far from that degree of certitude required by the rule stated in the forepart of this opinion. It is not conclusive nor does it convince one to a moral certainty that Frank was guilty of the charge against him. The facts are not all consistent with guilt nor are they inconsistent with innocence. In fact, when considered in their most favorable aspect, they fail to close the avenue to other hypotheses as to how Bacalis came to his death.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 157 So. 2d 445 - Pacetti v. State
  2. ““Circumstantial evidence is always insufficient, where, assuming all to be proved which the evidence is to prove, some other hypothesis may still be true, for it is the actual exclusion of every other hypothesis which invests mere circumstances with the force of proof.” (Emphasis added.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 232 So. 2d 232 - Terzado 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.