Ashlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1995
19 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 361 So. 2d 1106 - Chavers v. State · Gibson v. State · Kennedy v. State · Hornsby v. Rush · Burns 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'I charge you, gentlemen of the jury, if the evidence convinces you that Wanda Cassidy is a woman of bad character, and unworthy of belief, then you may disregard her evidence altogether.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(O)ur decisions are to the effect that every accused is entitled to have charges given, which would not be misleading, which correctly state the law of his case, and which are supported by any evidence, however, weak, insufficient, or doubtful in credibility."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Connolly v. State · Coon v. State“"Throughout the course of the trial evidence showing the bad character of Wanda Cassidy, the State's chief witness, was introduced. Among other acts it was shown that she assisted the appellant in escaping even though she knew he committed the murder. She was absent without leave from the Army. Her nickname was "Wicked Wanda" which she was called "by everybody." Her former husband testified that the appellant and his brother were "living with" her during the week but had to find another place to stay when her husband, who was on prison work release, came home on the weekends. "The trial judge refused to give the following written charge requested by the appellant.”
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.