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1983

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably Thigpen v. Roberts (1984), 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985)

34 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 Smith v. State · 380 So. 2d 1276 - Gathright v. State · 428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson v. State · 373 So. 2d 1042 - Gandy v. State · Cutshall 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “it must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty of culpable negligence.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hopson v. State · Jones v. State
  2. “was guilty of such gross negligence ... as to evince on his part a wanton or reckless disregard for the safety of human life, or such an indifference to the consequences of his act under the surrounding circumstances as to render his conduct tantamount to wilfulness ...”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Hopson v. State · 735 So. 2d 1059 - Beckham v. State
  3. “All the State must prove with respect to the victim is that he was prior to the incident a live human being. The homicide laws of this State protect all living beings within the jurisdiction, sinners as well as saints, drunks as well as deacons.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Nichols v. State · 506 So. 2d 264 - Black 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.