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440 So. 2d 315 - Madlock v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2014

14 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 320 So. 2d 368 - Clemons v. State · 271 So. 2d 735 - Craft v. State · 411 So. 2d 772 - Howell v. State · Wells v. State · Smith 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “because of the prejudicial and erroneously vigorous statements of the prosecuting attorney in his final arguments and the lower court's overruling appellant's objection thereto, we are forced to reverse the cause and remand for another trial.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fox v. State · 537 So. 2d 882 - Holmes v. State
  2. “particularly in criminal law, the failure to call a witness equally accessible to both the defendant and the state is not a proper subject for comment by either party.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Morgan v. State · 537 So. 2d 882 - Holmes v. State
  3. “The woman that this thing is all about. Rosemary Petty. Now, where is Rosemary Petty? Don't you know, ladies and gentleman of the jury, that if Rosemary Petty would come forth and sit on that witness chair and tell you that Nipper had threatened Madlock, Governor Finch [Madlock's attorney] would have had her under 15 subpoenas.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fox 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.