278 So. 2d 280 - State v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2009
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 Russ v. State · Adjmi v. State · Mathis 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here the challenged remark in closing argument of the prosecutor ... was really an `invited response' by the preceding argument of defense counsel regarding the same subject. It was a fair reply not violative of the Rule and which we would approve in these circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Now, did you hear one thing about him getting beaten up or somebody was pounding on his head, forcing him into this? Not a word about it.”
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.