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← 17 SO3D 825 - Byers v. State

Byers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 559 So. 2d 187 - State v. Law · 179 So. 2d 873 - Spataro v. State · 626 So. 2d 1364 - Gartrell v. State · 730 So. 2d 757 - Isaac v. State · Graham v. Rutherford

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

  1. “[W]hen the premises have not been in -4- the exclusive possession of the defendant, . . . knowledge and control cannot be inferred unless there are incriminating statements or other circumstances that would support such an inference.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[g]enerally, such independent proof can be established by the admission into evidence of a pretrial statement made by the accused, by witness testimony, or by scientific evidence.”
    1 later decision 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.