277 So. 2d 1 - Nell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
15 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 81 So. 2d 739 - Gibbs v. Mayo · Catanese v. State · 61 So. 2d 649 - Zalla v. State · Raines v. State · Streeter 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unlawful for any person corruptly to give ... to any public servant ... any pecuniary or other benefit not authorized by law for the past, present, or future exertion of any influence upon or with any other public servant regarding any act or omission which the person believes to have been, or which is represented to him as having been, either within the official discretion of the other public servant, in violation of a public duty, or in performance of a public duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to constitute the crime of bribery or an attempt to bribe, it would seem not to be a requisite that the act requested should be properly within the official power of the officer approached, but only that an offer of reward was made to influence the act of the officer in his official capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowledge on the part of the accused of the official capacity of the person to whom the bribe [was] offered,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trushin 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.