421 So. 2d 892 - State v. Cavalier’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2008
11 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · 411 So. 2d 415 - State v. Vaccaro · Burley v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · 368 So. 2d 1074 - State v. Ford · 347 So. 2d 1108 - State v. King
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of evidence of hostile demonstration or of overt act on the part of the person slain or injured, evidence of his dangerous character or of his threats against accused is not admissible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins · State v. Volpe““[T]he defendant must present appreciable evidence of an overt act or hostile demonstration by the victim before evidence of dangerous character can be admitted. ‘Overt act’ in this context means any act of the victim which manifests in the mind of a reasonable person a present intention on his part to Mil or do great bodily harm. * * * Moreover,’ this overt act by the decedent must have been made against the defendant at the time of the incident. * * ⅜ [Citations omitted.]””
2 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.