287 So. 2d 1 - State v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 515 So. 2d 161 - Carawan v. State (1987), 595 So. 2d 22 - State v. Barnes (1992)
62 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 A. R. Douglass, Inc. v. McRainey, as Admrx. · Van Pelt v. Hilliard · Waller v. First Savings & Trust Co. · State ex rel. Triay v. Burr · Ross v. Gore
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are useful only in case of doubt and should never be used to create doubt, only to remove it.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“Common law of England. The common law of England in relation to crimes, except so far as the same relates to the modes and degrees of punishment, shall be of full force in this state where there is no existing provision by statute on the subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where ... the duty which has not been performed, is one involving discretion, the failure to perform it is not per se an indictable offense in the absence of willful and corrupt motives. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.