Cotton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2014
10 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 Hamilton v. State · 45 So. 2d 119 - Miami Coca Cola Bottling Co. v. Mahlo · Yarborough v. State of Florida · 368 So. 2d 338 - Martinez v. State · McGahagin 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An information which is sufficient in other respects is not invalidated by reason of the fact that it is inartfully drawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wesby 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.