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464 So. 2d 268 - State v. Rushing’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
May 2013
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 684 So. 2d 368 - State v. Seals (1996), 669 So. 2d 364 - State v. Taylor (1996)

1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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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 Chambers v. Mississippi · People v. Collins · 391 So. 2d 421 - State v. Gibson · 449 So. 2d 1321 - State v. Watson · 397 So. 2d 1258 - State v. Monroe

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he source of credibility for the out-of-court statement against the defendant's penal interest is the assumption that a person would not normally admit to the commission of a crime if not true.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 646 So. 2d 925 - State v. Butler · 537 So. 2d 1262 - State v. Adams
  2. “Considering no witness expressed an unqualified opinion that defendant should be sentenced to death and four of the witnesses stated he should not be sentenced to death, we do not believe nor are we of the opinion that Ruby Gaspard's testimony standing alone injected an arbitrary factor such that it influenced the jury to return with a death sentence. [9]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 608 So. 2d 966 - State v. Bernard
  3. “What you want to talk about, man? Why you not sleeping?”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Rushing v. Butler

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.