429 So. 2d 307 - State v. Bruns’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 459 So. 2d 306 - Tucker v. State (1984), 509 So. 2d 261 - Wilcott v. State (1987)
44 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 Brown v. State · Green v. State · Grant v. State · 262 So. 2d 655 - DeLaine v. State · Lomax 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the evidence is susceptible of inference by the jury that the defendant is guilty of a lesser offense than that charged is a critical evidentiary matter exclusively within the province of the jury. Fundamental trial fairness requires that a defendant being tried for robbery should be permitted to have an instruction on a lesser-included offense upon timely request.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the jury is given a fair opportunity to exercise its "pardon" power by returning a verdict of guilty as to the next lower crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(although it may have been unwilling to make the two-step leap downward to”
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.