Derrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2017
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 218 So. 2d 705 - Jones 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a person is convicted of a felony and perfects an appeal to this Court and escapes from custody pending his appeal such action shall be deemed an abandonment of the appeal and will be subject to a motion by the state to dismiss such appeal. However, such dismissal shall be subject to be reinstated on motion of appellant showing good cause therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“dismissal shall be subject to be reinstated on motion of appellant showing good cause therefor”
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.