Covington v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2003
5 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 Smith v. State · Mitchell v. State · 354 So. 2d 125 - State v. Ward · Kaplan 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by the Board of Public Instruction of Indian River County. On appeal, the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed Covington's conviction, finding the proof of ownership of the burglarized property insufficient because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the state failed to produce any evidence of the actual ownership of the school property.”
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.