222 So. 2d 757 - State v. Schell’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2002
13 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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · 71 So. 2d 887 - State Ex Rel. Mitchell v. Kelly · 156 So. 2d 677 - Sharon v. State · 124 So. 2d 48 - State Ex Rel. Florida Industrial Comm. v. Willis · 102 So. 2d 613 - State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Newell
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.
“[T]he state may elect to immunize one offender from prosecution in order to secure the conviction of another, and this statute should be liberally construed to accomplish that purpose. State ex rel. Reynolds v. Newell, Fla. 1958, 102 So.2d 613 ; State ex rel. Johnson v. MacMillan, Fla.App. 1967, 194 So.2d 627 ; Lewis v. State, Fla.App. 1963, 155 So.2d 841 ; State v. Schell, supra at 758 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tsavaris v. Scruggs“the very purpose for its enactment ... [is] to aid the state in the prosecution of crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tsavaris v. Scruggs
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.