271 So. 2d 464 - Simmons v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2006
18 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · Wallace v. State · Kirkland v. State · 253 So. 2d 907 - Reyes v. State · 257 So. 2d 261 - O'Sullivan v. Alday
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`For the purpose of discrediting a witness, a wide range of cross-examination is permitted, as a matter of right, in regard to his motives, interest, or animus, as connected with the cause or with the parties thereto, upon which matters he may be contradicted by other evidence, ...'" Wallace v. State, 1899, 41 Fla. 547 , 26 So. 713 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant in this jurisdiction is not entitled to a perfect trial but is entitled to a fair trial.”
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.