457 So. 2d 1012 - Copeland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Rolling v. State (1997), Knight v. Dugger (1988)
36 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Enmund v. Florida · Dobbert v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida · Murphy v. Florida
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the general state of mind of the inhabitants of a community is so infected by knowledge of the incident and accompanying prejudice, bias, and preconceived opinions that jurors could not possibly put these matters out of their minds and try the case solely on the evidence presented in the courtroom.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“murder was the culmination of a course of events that began when appellant went into a store, robbed the clerk at gunpoint, and abducted her from the store.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. State · Stephens v. State“In the present case, by contrast, 20 of 78 persons questioned were excused because they indicated an opinion as to petitioner's guilt. This may indeed be 20 more than would occur in the trial of a totally obscure person, but it by no means suggests a community with sentiment so poisoned against petitioner as to impeach the indifference of jurors who displayed no animus of their own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rolling 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.