403 So. 2d 1214 - State v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 622 So. 2d 198 - State v. Bourque (1993), 750 So. 2d 832 - State v. Snyder (1999)
44 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 315 So. 2d 675 - State v. Carlisle · State v. Findley · 327 So. 2d 380 - State v. Winston · 369 So. 2d 1292 - State v. Parsley · 368 So. 2d 716 - State v. Benson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant's right to a fair trial was substantially affected by being forced to go to trial with counsel who had no time to prepare a defense through no fault of his own.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The granting or refusal of a motion for a continuance rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether a refusal to grant a continuance was justified depends primarily on the circumstances of the particular case.”
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.