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1983

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Maples v. State (1999), 462 So. 2d 972 - Leverett v. State (1984)

2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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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 Gryger v. Burke · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · 392 So. 2d 1274 - Watson v. State · 392 So. 2d 1280 - Sanders v. State · United States v. Tombrello

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To be timely, an objection must be interposed as soon as the ground for the objection becomes apparent.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Maples v. State · 651 So. 2d 59 - Hardeman v. State
  2. “When there is a contradiction in the evidence, the defense of entrapment should be resolved by the jury.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Germany v. State · Wright v. State
  3. “"[W]hen a defendant, through his own counsel, freely admits his conviction of a crime, unless he qualifies his admission, he admits all of the ingredients needed to prove the conviction of the crime. . . . By his act of admitting the prior conviction, *Page 377 we think the defendant relieved the State from the burden of proving any of the matters that ordinarily would attend establishing the prior conviction."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 504 So. 2d 373 - Kent 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.