463 So. 2d 554 - Flint v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2017
9 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 Grant v. State · 444 So. 2d 407 - Marty v. State · In re Trial Courts of the Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases · State v. Heathcoat · Reddick 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [t]he [trial] judge shall not instruct [the jury] on any lesser included offense as to which there is no evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“eliminate the need to give a requested lesser offense [instruction], not necessarily included in the charged offense, when there is a total lack of evidence of the lesser offense.”
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.