State v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably State v. Wood (1980), Berry v. State (1986)
1 federal appellate · 39 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 Baustian v. Young · State v. Moore · State v. Robinson · State v. Baldwin · State v. Brown
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Sjuch photographs should not be admitted where their sole purpose is to arouse the emotions of the jury and to prejudice the defendant, * * * the sound governing principle is that photographs which are calculated to arouse the sympathies or prejudices of the jury are properly excluded if they are entirely irrelevant or not substantially necessary to show material facts or conditions * * * )f”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The photograph objected to here, exhibit one, was neither needed nor offered for any of the conventional reasons or purposes, — to identify the victim, to show the nature and location of the injury, to illustrate or prove the character of the weapon, the surrounding circumstances, to determine the degree of the crime, or to show the cause of death. As a matter of fact, by the state’s admissions, the body was in such a state of decomposition that most of these matters could not be found or illustrated, particularly by this photograph. In short, as the court said of another photograph, in reversing a manslaughter conviction, this exhibit is “extremely obscene, offensive, vulgar, horrid, and repulsive” (State v. Robinson, (Mo.) 328 S.W.2d 667, 671 ), and any relevant probative value it may have is far outweighed by the fact that it is needlessly and manifestly inflammatory and therefore prejudicially erroneous. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leisure“[Pjhotographs of corpses, even of decomposed bodies, are often properly received in evidence_ If the photographs illustrate any of these purposes and also meet the tests of relevancy and probative force their admissibility is said to be within the discretion of the trial court and it is not a completely valid objection that they are gruesome, or are merely cumulative or corroborative of the testimony of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Randolph
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.