355 So. 2d 111 - Buckrem v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2008 · most notably Barclay v. Florida (1983), Parker v. Dugger (1991)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 332 So. 2d 615 - Jones v. State · 322 So. 2d 485 - Swan v. State · Jenkins 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alibi was the crucial defense in this case. If a witness knows material facts which will be helpful to a defendant in making his defense, and the witness is competent and available, the defendant's failure to produce the witness is properly a subject of comment by the prosecutor. This is particularly true if the witness is the spouse of the defendant. 23A C.J.S. Criminal Law § 1099b, page 181; 5 A.L.R.2d 930 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the event the death penalty is held to be unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court and the defendant herein is brought back before this Court and sentenced to life imprisonment as provided by Chapter 775, Florida Statutes, the fifteen-year sentence imposed herein for the offense of Assault With Intent to .Commit Murder In The First Degree shall be consecutive to any such sentence of life imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buckrem v. State“clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Dugger
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.