457 So. 2d 1084 - Ryan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 719 So. 2d 1197 - Gore v. State (1998), 520 So. 2d 1 - Robinson v. State (1988)
53 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Hasting · United States v. Phillips · Clark v. State · 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of such a character that neither rebuke nor retraction may entirely destroy [its] sinister influence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“scramble[s] the orderly procedure laid out by the Florida Rules of Evidence [and] ... robs ... counsel of an important strategic tool used in cross-examination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n a close case ... where the jury is walking a thin line between a verdict of guilt and innocence, the prosecutor cannot be allowed to push the jury to the side of guilt with improper comments such as these.”
2 later decisions 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.