458 So. 2d 719 - Roberts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2011
19 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 Strong v. United States · 385 So. 2d 1298 - Norman v. State · 409 So. 2d 1337 - Hickombottom v. State · Anderson v. State · Swanson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant, David Carrol Tyler acted wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, without authority of law, and not in necessary self-defense, with deliberate design to effect the death of Robert Lee Singleton ...,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if an error in one instruction is cured by another, and when, considered as a whole, the instructions correctly state the law, the error will not be reversible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It has long been the rule that if instructions correctly state the law when read together as a whole, then there is no error.”
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.