384 So. 2d 351 - State v. Doze’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2018
15 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 356 So. 2d 1370 - State v. Martin · State v. Weedon · 371 So. 2d 1135 - State v. Sheppard · 331 So. 2d 848 - State v. Thompson · 381 So. 2d 436 - State v. Johnson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The state of mind of the victim is relevant to the existence of a motive for the killing only if two further inferences are made from the initial inference that the victim did intend to evict the defendant. The first of these additional inferences is that the victim actually transformed her intention into action, that she took some affirmative steps to "get that man out of her house." .... The final and crucial inference which must be made is that the victim communicated her intention to the defendant and that the defendant reacted to this communication. Only if her intention to evict defendant were known to the defendant himself, would it have any relevance to his subsequent conduct. There is no evidence whatsoever that would tend to support this inference, but there is a real danger that a jury might interpret the fact to be proved (that the defendant attacked his landlady) as evidence of the fact to be inferred from the hearsay testimony (that his landlady ordered him to leave the premises.) 384 So.2d at 353 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“hearsay evidence of a victim's declaration of intention may not be introduced to prove a defendant’s motive, when there is no evidence to show that the victim’s intention was actually communicated to the defendant.”) Doze, 384 So.2d at 354 . Similarly, in Weedon , there was no evidence ■ (in fact, evidence to the contrary) that the defendant knew the victim intended to leave him (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams“are generally admissible, as an exception to the hearsay rule, if introduced to prove the state of mind of the declarant, when that state of mind is at issue,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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