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← 446 SO2D 1008 - Sharp v. State

Sharp v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
July 2012
most recently cited

23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably McFee v. State (1987), 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State (1984)

23 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 Shearer v. State · 199 So. 2d 635 - May v. State · 423 So. 2d 1311 - Ashley v. State · 354 So. 2d 266 - Williams 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “photographs of the victim should not ordinarily be admitted into evidence where the killing is not contradicted or denied and the corpus delicti and the identity of the deceased have been established.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 995 So. 2d 94 - Jordan v. State · 979 So. 2d 721 - Harris v. State
  2. “[P]hotographs have evidentiary value when they: `(1) aid in describing the circumstances of the killing and the corpus delicti; (2) where they describe the location of the body and cause of death; (3) where they supplement or clarify witness testimony.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brink v. State
  3. “No judgment shall be reversed on the ground of ... improper admission or exclusion of evidence, ... unless it shall affirmatively appear, from the whole record, that such judgment has resulted in a miscarriage of justice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. McFee 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.