469 So. 2d 790 - Brate v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2001
7 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 Tibbs v. Florida · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · 322 So. 2d 485 - Swan v. State · Commonwealth v. Hicks · 97 So. 2d 277 - Tipton 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only rational view of the case is that [the victim] was in such a physical condition or state of health as made the assault upon him fatal in its consequences, and that the effect of that assault, acting directly or indirectly upon that condition, brought to a close a life which but for it would have lasted longer.”
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.