State v. Wormser’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2018
16 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 436 So. 2d 475 - State v. Kahey · 420 So. 2d 1126 - State v. Graham · State v. Prestridge
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... there were numerous witnesses who could have testified for the defendant, therefore, the prosecutor's remarks did not focus the jury's attention on the defendant's failure to testify. Furthermore, it cannot be inferred that the prosecutor intended to emphasize defendant's failure to take the stand. ( 467 So.2d at 60 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Such a statement constitutes reversible error if the statement was intended to draw the attention of the jury to the defendant's failure to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hodges“... Nobody ever came and took the stand and told you [referring to defendant's actions on the day in question] ...”
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.