Rankin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably 471 So. 2d 9 - Bundy v. State (1985), 748 So. 2d 970 - Thomas v. State (1999)
33 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 Roberson v. State · Mardorff v. State · 88 So. 2d 272 - Manson v. State · Hathaway v. State · Melbourne v. State
Most-quoted passages
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““The question developed by this procedure is whether or not the State, upon impeaching a court witness by showing that he had formerly appeared and made a statement, which at the time of trial he says he does not recall, may go further and introduce the contents of the statement. “It is plain to us by the original ruling that the trial judge frowned upon such procedure when he restricted the introduction to the mere time and place of the statement and this thought is confirmed by his action in meticulously instructing the jury that the questions and answers repeated by the State Attorney could be considered only for the purpose of impeachment and not as substantive testimony. Yet the jury got from the reading of the questions, purportedly asked the witness at the time of the interview, and the answers presumably given and repeated at the trial a description of the horrible crime with which appellants had been charged and convicted and this procedure we cannot sanction. We think it was prejudicial error that requires a reversal of the judgment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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