346 So. 2d 181 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Martin (1994), 438 So. 2d 1091 - State v. Johnson (1983)
43 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. Dotson · State v. Raymond · 305 So. 2d 514 - State v. James · 343 So. 2d 118 - State v. Glover · 339 So. 2d 764 - State v. May
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. As a matter of right. On its own motion the court may, and on request of a party the court shall, order that the witnesses be excluded from the courtroom or from a place where they can see or hear the proceedings, and refrain from discussing the facts of the case with anyone other than counsel in the case. In the interests of justice, the court may exempt any witness from its order of exclusion. B. Exceptions. This Article does not authorize exclusion of any of the following: (1) A party who is a natural person. (2) A single officer or single employee of a party which is not a natural person designated as its representative or case agent by its attorney. (3) A person whose presence is shown by a party to be essential to the presentation of his cause such as an expert. (4) The victim of the offense or the family of the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The often repeated purpose of the rule is to prevent witnesses from being influenced by prior testimony and to strengthen the role of cross-examination in developing the facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fussell · State v. Evins“"`Man does not communicate by words alone, and it may occur that words become inferior to action as a mode of communicating a correct impression of a scene observed. Certainly, in an appropriate case, it is proper and customary for the trial court in its discretion to sanction a departure from the ordinary or verbal medium and permit the witness to make clearer his own observed data by representing them in gesture, dumb-show, or other dramatic mode. Whether it is more useful to do so must depend much on the circumstances of the case. The only general and disfavoring consideration to be noted is that the witness' dramatic expression may be calculated to give unfair emphasis and create improper emotional effects, but this can rarely occur.'"”
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.