State v. Medlin’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 96 So. 3d 412 - State v. Adkins (2012), 76 So. 3d 991 - Maestas v. State (2011)
50 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 Frank v. State · Simmons v. State · Commonwealth v. Murphy · Mills v. State · State of Fla. Ex Rel Lanz v. Dowling
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant was aware of the nature of the drug”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is not necessary for the State to prove that the commission of such act was accompanied by criminal intent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grinage v. State · Green v. State“acts prohibited by statute (statutory as distinguished from common law crimes) need not be accompanied by a criminal intent, unless such intent be specifically required by the statute itself, as the doing of the act furnishes such intent.”
2 later decisions 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.