State v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 472 So. 2d 1174 - Toole v. State (1985), State v. Rolle (1990)
86 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 Hialeah, Inc. v. Bell · 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State · Canady v. Lumberton City Board of Education · Simpson v. State · 397 So. 2d 910 - Booker 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a trial on the charge of burglary, proof of the entering of such structure or conveyance at any time stealthily and without consent of the owner or occupant thereof shall be prima facie evidence of entering with intent to commit an offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Looking at the plain language of the statute, we can see that it sets out three factual elements: entry, stealth, and lack of consent. If proved, the statute provides, the facts thus shown "shall be prima facie evidence of entering with intent to commit an offense." That is, proof of the three elements will always be deemed to be a sufficient showing to allow a case of burglary to go to the jury even if there is no evidence of the defendant's state of mind at the time of the unlawful entering, and will be legally sufficient proof of intent to support a verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The element of intent, being a state of mind, often can only be proved by circumstantial evidence.”
3 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.