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1981

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
December 2012
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Caruso v. State (1994), 438 So. 2d 31 - Erp v. Carroll (1983)

30 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 Stinson v. State · Myers v. State · Eldridge v. State · Fields v. State · Herndon 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... when a question, posed on cross-examination, relates only to a matter collateral and non-material to any issue at trial, the witness’ answer to the question is deemed conclusive. Consequently, the witness cannot be impeached with regard to this testimony by any of the normal means of subsequent impeachment, including contradiction testimony by another witness.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Simmons v. State · Rice v. State
  2. “(1) facts relevant to a particular issue (which would therefore be admissible irregardless of their impeachment value) and (2) facts which discredit a witness by pointing out the witness' bias, corruption, or lack of competency... .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Foster v. State · 428 So. 2d 760 - Hair v. State
  3. “(1) Any party, except the party calling the witness, may attack the credibility of a witness by: (a) Introducing statements of the witness which are inconsistent with his present testimony.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 528 So. 2d 46 - Quinones v. State · Simmons 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.