338 So. 2d 446 - Duncan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1997
4 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 State v. . Williams · Rudolph 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . We cannot affirm a conviction based upon mere conjecture or speculation where the record is completely silent as to an essential element of the offense. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it appears that the legislature did not intend for accessories after the fact to be tried before the principal except where the principal is dead or has fled from justice. The instant record is completely silent on whether the principal . . . was ever tried and convicted on any charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the principal felon is dead or has fled from justice, such accessory may be prosecuted and convicted before the principal; but in such case it shall be necessary to allege in the indictment and to prove on the trial the fact that the principal felon is dead or has fled.”
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.