476 So. 2d 130 - Bertolotti v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

152

cited by 152 later decisions

states following

April 2019

most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 144 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio (1986), 830 So. 2d 792 - Pagan v. State (2002)

4 federal appellate · 144 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Bumper v. North Carolina · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Henry · 443 So. 2d 955 - State v. Murray

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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“The proper exercise of closing argument is to review the evidence and to explicate those inferences which may reasonably be drawn from the evidence. Conversely, it must not be used to inflame the minds and passions of the jurors so that their verdict reflects an emotional response to the crime or the defendant rather than the logical analysis of the evidence in light of the applicable law.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Miller v. State · King v. State
“to regulate ... the discipline of persons admitted”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 622 So. 2d 1325 - Garcia v. State · 522 So. 2d 802 - Jackson v. State
“[t]hese considerations are outside the scope of the jury's deliberation and their injection violates the prosecutor's duty to seek justice, not merely `win' a death recommendation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 759 So. 2d 368 - Humphrey v. State · 975 So. 2d 1054 - Merck v. State

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.