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← 184 So. 2d 217 - Sims v. State

184 So. 2d 217 - Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1966

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
February 1999
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1999

15 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 109 So. 2d 7 - Singer v. State · Lee v. State · Hulst v. State · Cooper v. Pitchess · 116 So. 2d 626 - Piccott 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The three elements which Florida courts recognize as essential to proof of the corpus delicti in a homicide case are: 1) the fact of death; 2) the criminal agency of another person as the cause of death; and 3) the identity of the deceased. Hulst v. State, 1936, 123 Fla. 315 , 166 So. 828 ; Lee v. State, 1928, 96 Fla. 59 , 117 So. 699 ; Jefferson v. State, Fla. 1961, 128 So.2d 132 ... . ( 184 So.2d 217 , page 221).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 312 So. 2d 243 - Robbins v. State
  2. ““Seldom, if ever, will excusal of a juror constitute reversible error for the parties are not entitled to have any particular jurors serve. They are entitled only to have qualified jurors. No complaint is made here that the jurors who served were not qualified.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Nowling v. Williams
  3. “such as to preclude him from finding any defendant guilty of an offense punishable with death.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 229 So. 2d 855 - Paramore 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.