475 So. 2d 609 - Ex Parte Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), 585 So. 2d 112 - Ex Parte Bankhead (1991)
73 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 Weatherford v. Bursey · 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · Phillips v. State · Sorrell v. State · Miller 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connolly v. State · Scott v. State“does not require corroborative testimony as to material elements of the crime; it only requires other evidence 'tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a witness is an accomplice may be a question of law or fact, depending on the circumstances. Where there is a doubt or dispute concerning the complicity of a witness and the testimony is susceptible to different inferences on that point, the question is for the jury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.