Talley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State (1959), 109 So. 2d 7 - Singer v. State (1959)
124 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 Wallace v. State · Daniels v. State · Robinson v. State · Crosby v. State · Coston 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established law that in a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence which in any manner shows or tends to show the accused has committed another crime wholly independent of that for which he is on trial, even though it is a crime of some other sort, is irrelevant and inadmissible. Coston v. State, 139 Fla. 250 , 190 So. 520 , and similar cases. * * * “The authorities recognized a well established exception to the rule enunciated in Coston v. State, supra, but point out that evidence tending to show the commission of other crimes requires ar-elóse scrutiny into its relevancy.Whether it tends to exculpate or con--vict, if it is relevant, it must bear á certain relation to the crime charged so as to connect the two either as parts of one transaction, explains or defines the character of the act charged as to motive or intention with which the act charged was committed, then the evidence is admissible. Any evidence tending to throw light upon the character of the act under investigation is admissible, such as motive, intent, absence of mistake, a common scheme embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that the proof of one tends to establish the other and identify the person charged with the commission of the crime on trial.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Evidence of other crimes may be admitted when it tends to establish a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of a series of crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to prove the other, and to show the defendant's guilt of the crime charged. Subsequent as well as prior collateral offenses can be put in evidence and from such system, identity or intent can often be shown. Like crimes, committed against the same class of persons, at about the same time, tend to show the same general design and evidence of the same is relevant and may lead to proof of identity." (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In many criminal offenses, intent is the essence of the crime, and where not established, the prosecution fails. In crimes malum in se, intent is presumed, but where it is not a matter of presumption, it must be proven as any other fact. Where intent is material,, the acts, declarations and conduct of the accused are relevant to show that: intent. Hence, evidence of collateral: offenses is admissible on the trial of the-main charge to prove intent. To be admissible as relevant, such offenses need not be exactly concurrent. If they are within such time or show such relation-to the main charge as to make connections obvious, such offenses are admissible to show intent. Evidence of" collateral offenses which is inseparably inter-woven with the offense charged- and which also show intent is admissible. Wharton’s Criminal Evidence,. Vol. 1, 11th Ed., pp. 516-520, par. 350. “Evidence of the motive which suggests the doing of the act constituting-the crime charged is always admissible and this is true even though such evidence tends to show the commission of another crime, or constitutes proof of the commission of another crime, pro vided the time which has elapsed between the crime charged and the offense concerning which the testimony is offered is not too remote. Evidence of similar acts affords the surest basis for inference that the crime charged was committed by the accused. Wharton’s Criminal Evidence, Vol. 1, 11th Ed., pp. 523-527, par. 351.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hutchinson v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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