Motley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 981 So. 2d 449 - Martinez v. State (2008), 412 So. 2d 347 - Bryant v. State (1982)
2 federal appellate · 98 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 Garner v. State · Croft 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the trial court attempts to define the offense, for the commission of which an accused is being tried, it is the duty of the court to instruct the jury as to each and every essential element of the offense charged, and a charge attempting to define the offense which does not cover material elements of the offense is necessarily misleading and prejudicial to the accused. It is equivalent to directing the jury that it is not necessary for the state to prove any elements of the offense except those included in the definition given by the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where there is any evidence introduced at trial which supports the theory of the defense, a defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on the law applicable to his theory of defense when he so requests.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"... if you should find in this case that the defendant was assaulted by the [complaining] witness..., and that he used only such force as was necessary or as was reasonable ..., then he is justified in using such force as was necessary to repel the assault, even to the extent of taking human life."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.