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391 So. 2d 1010 - Baker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2014

13 state decisions

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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 State v. McKinnon · State v. . McKinnon · Clark v. State · Waller v. Rapides Grocery Co. · Dunbar 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “defendants are not entitled to an instruction which informs the jury that the defendant is a competent witness in his own behalf.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. McClain v. State · Field v. State
  2. “competency as a witness was evident by his appearance on the witness stand. If he had not been competent, he would not have been permitted to testify. There is no sound reason for a trial to instruct a jury that any witness, including the defendant is a competent witness. The jury, in its search for truth, is the sole judge of the worth and weight of the testimony of any witness, and should be free to make this judgment without instructions singling out or pointing to any particular witness stating such witness is competent.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Field v. State · 797 So. 2d 918 - Outlaw v. State
  3. “defendant is a competent witness in his own behalf.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. McClain v. State · Field v. State

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.