345 So. 2d 1185 - State v. Monroe’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably State v. Prestridge (1981), 450 So. 2d 938 - State v. Vessell (1984)
47 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 Mattox v. United States · 305 So. 2d 421 - State v. Hodgeson · State v. O'BRIEN · 285 So. 2d 240 - State v. Smith · State v. Graves
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before the exception may be invoked by the State against the defendant, allowing introduction of a permanent record made in the ordinary course of business from personal knowledge of the facts recorded, or from information furnished to one having business duty to observe and report the facts, it must be shown that the person who made the record is genuinely unavailable for testimony, that he had no strong motive to misrepresent, and that in all probability the evidence is trustworthy.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“... method of record keeping itself suggests that the identity of the individual who made each entry is unascertainable....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * use of the business records exception against the accused in criminal prosecutions should be limited to situations in which the person making the record is genuinely unavailable for trial, either because his identity is unknown or because diligent efforts have failed to procure his attendance as a witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Marston · State v. Hebert
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.