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1984

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
2
states following
August 2013
most recently cited

54 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Ex Parte Harrell (1985), Hall v. State (1999)

54 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Edwards v. Arizona · Davis v. Alaska · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A photograph `is competent evidence of anything of which it is competent and relevant for a witness to give a verbal description.'”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “`Although consideration of all mitigating circumstances is required by the United States Constitution, Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 , 98 S.Ct. 2954 , 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978), the decision of whether a particular mitigating circumstance in sentencing is proven and the weight to be given it rests with the judge and jury. Lucas v. State, 376 So.2d 1149 (Fla.1979).' Smith v. State, 407 So.2d 894, 901 (Fla.1981).”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[S]tatements made by the accused, after the commission of the crime and not as part of the res gestae, fit the classic definition of hearsay.”
    3 later decisions 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.