349 So. 2d 554 - Gordon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2012
11 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 United States v. Wade · 328 So. 2d 355 - Saucier v. State · Reed v. State · Shaw v. State · 216 So. 2d 425 - Poole 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the duty of the movant to support his motion by proof, and in the absence of proof in support of the motion, the presumption in favor of the correctness of the action of the trial court will prevail.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court only acts on the basis of the contents of the record as made in the trial court and may not act upon statements of facts in briefs or arguments of counsel which are not reflected by the record.”
2 later decisions 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.