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1982

Citation profile

81
cited by 81 later decisions
6
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 436 So. 2d 475 - State v. Kahey (1983), State v. Brogdon (1984)

80 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 391 So. 2d 421 - State v. Gibson · Grismore v. Consolidated Products Co. · State v. Chopin · Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Messenger · State v. Vinzant

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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “tantamount to an opinion that the defendant was guilty of the crime charged,”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “(a) the subject of the inference must be so distinctly related to some science, profession, business or occupation as to be beyond the understanding of the average layman; and (b) the witness must have sufficient skill, knowledge or experience in that field or calling as to make it appear that his opinion or inference will probably aid the trier of fact in his search for truth.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “would be involved in the distribution of marijuana,”
    6 later decisions 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.