312 So. 2d 7 - Keyes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2008
11 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 City of Boston v. Santosuosso · Mickler v. Faiis · Piassick v. United States · Commonwealth v. FINKELSTEIN · State Ex Rel. Woods v. Thrower
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“¶ 24. A defendant is entitled to a fair and impartial trial before a jury not exposed to abusive arguments appealing to their passions and prejudices. Although ours is an adversary system, prosecuting attorneys must exercise caution and discretion in making extreme statements in their arguments to the jury, if for no other reason than to save themselves, the defendant, the court and the jury the additional time, expense and effort involved in a retrial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of a previous conviction, based on a plea of nolo contendere, is not admissible in another case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“DEFENDANT ENTERED A PLEA OF: NOLO CONTENDERE”
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.