Swain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably 530 So. 2d 53 - State v. Jones (1988), 462 So. 2d 548 - Burch v. State (1985)
43 state decisions
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 452 So. 2d 136 - Manning v. State · 413 So. 2d 112 - Jackson 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had personal knowledge as to how much he paid on the insurance deductible, and we think that such testimony adequately proves that the value of the items stolen is worth at least the amount which [the victim] had to pay because of the theft.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“instant offense ... for which convictions have not been obtained”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at least one reason cited by the trial court”
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.