State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 559 So. 2d 187 - State v. Law (1989), State v. Parker (1985)
128 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 117 So. 2d 731 - Dade County Port Authority v. Keller · 107 So. 2d 16 - Frazier v. State · Lee v. State · Holland v. State · Lambright 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“derangement, mistake or official fabrication.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Acoff v. State · State v. Tumlinson“Circumstantial evidence, by its very nature, is not free from alternate interpretations. The state is not obligated to rebut conclusively every possible variation, however, or to explain every possible construction in a way which is consistent only with the allegations against the defendant. Were those requirements placed on the state for these purposes, circumstantial evidence would always be inadequate to establish a preliminary showing of the necessary elements of a crime.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]efore a confession is admitted the state has the burden of proving by substantial evidence that a crime was committed, and that such proof may be in the form of circumstantial evidence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. N.G.S. v. State · BE 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.