King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2006
19 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 228 So. 2d 599 - Murphree v. State · 278 So. 2d 420 - Campbell v. State · 255 So. 2d 661 - Gilleylen v. State · Kitchens v. State · La Fontaine 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellant's conviction did not rest upon circumstantial evidence. There was an eyewitness to the shooting who testified in great detail as to what happened. The credibility of the witness and the weight and worth to be given his testimony was for the jury to decide. The verdict is evidence that the jury believed the eyewitness and not the appellant, which they had a right to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but convicted of manslaughter may not on appeal complain of an instruction dealing with murder, even if erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heidel 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.