Divine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1990
20 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 Roberts v. Florida · Johnson v. Williams · Lamb v. State of Florida · Oliver v. State · Ex Parte Seals
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would indefinitely protract litigation, destroy the stability and certainty of judicial proceedings, and open wide the door to perjury and fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n error of fact which may be used as a basis for a writ of error coram nobis does not consist of new evidence going to the merits of the case”
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.