198 So. 2d 21 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2008
20 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 117 So. 2d 731 - Dade County Port Authority v. Keller · Lambright v. State · 102 So. 2d 281 - Raulerson v. State · Washington v. State · 88 So. 2d 918 - Anglin v. Mayo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is often difficult to determine when declarations having relation to an act or transaction should be considered as part of the res gestae, and an equally great difficulty has been experienced in the effort to prescribe general rules for the admission of such. It may, however, be safely said that declarations which were natural emanations or outgrowths of the act or occurrence in litigation, although not precisely concurrent in point of time, if they were yet voluntarily and spontaneously made so nearly contemporaneous as to be in the presence of the transaction which they illustrate and explain, and were made under such circumstances as necessarily to exclude the idea of design or deliberation, must upon the clearest principles of justice, be admissible as part of the act or transaction itself."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The defense introduced three different witnesses, and asked each one of them to testify whether or not, within the next four, five, or ten minutes after the shooting, the deceased stated to the witness who shot him, and whether the man who shot him had two legs, and whether or not the defendant shot him. The state attorney objected to the questions as seeking hearsay testimony. The objection was sustained, and the defendant excepted. The transcript does not disclose what transpired between the shooting and the time to which the questions relate, so as to show what the supervening circumstances, including the statements inquired about, were all the product of, and a part of, the difficulty itself. In the absence of such showing, the questions objected to cannot be held to relate to declarations which were produced by the occurrences to which they relate, but, rather, that they relate to a retrospective narration of them, and they were therefore properly excluded." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In the cause under review there was no question of what transpired between the shooting and the statements. The response of the victim was in direct reply to, and a natural emanation or outgrowth of, the question of what had happened. It was a necessary incident to explain the victim's condition, was so logical a comment as to exclude the idea of design or deliberation; and it was substantially contemporaneous with the offense." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.