464 So. 2d 421 - State v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 584 So. 2d 282 - State v. Ondek (1991), 558 So. 2d 654 - State v. Martin (1990)
44 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · Green v. Georgia · 104 S. Ct. 263 - Borman's Inc. v. Allied Supermarkets, Inc. · Moran v. Ohio
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of evidence of hostile demonstration or of overt act on the part of the person slain or injured, evidence of his dangerous character or of his threats against [the] accused is not admissible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“by testing their competency and impartiality and discovering bases for [the] intelligent exercise of cause and peremptory challenges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sims · State v. Coleman“right to intelligently exercise cause and peremptory challenges may not be curtailed by the exclusion of non-repetitious voir dire questions which reasonably explore the juror's potential prejudices, predispositions or misunderstandings relevant to the central issues of the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell
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.