O'CALLAGHAN v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 642 So. 2d 730 - Armstrong v. State (1994), 497 So. 2d 863 - Johnston v. State (1986)
43 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 Harrington v. California · Schneble v. Florida · Clark v. State · 426 So. 2d 963 - Faison v. State · 401 So. 2d 1343 - State v. Rivers
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question of whether severance should be granted must necessarily be answered on a case by case basis... Specifically, the fact that a defendant might have a better chance of acquittal or a strategic advantage if tried separately does not establish the right to severance ... Nor is hostility among defendants, or an attempt by one defendant to escape punishment by throwing the blame on a codefendant, a sufficient reason, by itself, to require severance. .. . If the defendants engage in a swearing match as to who did what, the jury should resolve the conflicts and determine the truth of the matter. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“The [severance] rule is designed to assure a fair determination of each defendant's guilt or innocence.... Specifically, the fact that the defendant might have a better chance of acquittal or a strategic advantage if tried separately does not establish the right to a severance. Nor is hostility among defendants, or an attempt by one defendant to escape punishment by throwing the blame on a codefendant, a sufficient reason, by itself, to require severance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herrera v. State“because of our reciprocal discovery rules, [a defendant has] full knowledge of both the charges and the evidence that the state [will] submit at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kearse 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.