419 So. 2d 200 - Whitlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987), 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State (1984)
34 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 416 So. 2d 383 - Johnson v. State · 351 So. 2d 1342 - Gray v. State · Pettus v. S Tate · 287 So. 2d 759 - Herron v. State · Seals v. St. Regis Paper Company
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A leading question is one that suggests to the witness the specific answer desired by the examining attorney. Trial courts are given great discretion in permitting the use of such questions, and unless there has been a manifest abuse of discretion resulting in injury to the complaining party, we will not reverse the decision. This is because the harm caused is usually inconsiderable and speculative, and only the trial court was able to observe the demeanor of the witness to determine the harm.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“if you can reconcile the evidence upon any hypothesis which raises a reasonable doubt consistent with [McMurry's] innocence, you should do so and find him not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is only in cases where the evidence is entirely circumstantial that the jury is required to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis than guilt.”
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.