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← 442 SO2D 265 - Lavette v. State

Lavette v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 1998
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · Government of Virgin Islands v. Smith · United States v. Turkish · 406 So. 2d 1089 - Parker v. State · Ramirez 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he defense should be allowed wide latitude to demonstrate bias or possible motive for a witness's testimony,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Boyd's testimony provides circumstantial evidence, which can be used to show agreement and intent... .”
    1 later decision 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.