458 So. 2d 726 - Stevens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably McFee v. State (1987), 585 So. 2d 660 - Willie v. State (1991)
1 federal appellate · 59 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 416 So. 2d 383 - Johnson v. State · 413 So. 2d 1007 - Edwards v. State · 199 So. 2d 635 - May v. State · 297 So. 2d 888 - Pittman 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he admissibility of photographs rests within the sound discretion of the trial judge, whose discretion will be upheld absent abuse of that discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... where the defendant was in an acute, rampant state of intoxication equivalent to mania, any waiver of constitutional right could not be voluntary and intentional and the defendant's statement should be excluded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“established both the multiplicity of blows administered and the extent of force and violence used.”
3 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.