Duckworth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably 660 So. 2d 1285 - Gossett v. State (1995), 530 So. 2d 694 - Davis v. State (1988)
52 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 362 So. 2d 1236 - Voyles v. State · BOLIN v. State · 290 So. 2d 625 - Shanklin v. State · 354 So. 2d 266 - Williams v. State · Thompson 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not appear to be a conflict of interest among the co-defendants,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Court instructs the Jury that it is a question of fact for you to determine whether the gun, which is a blank starter pistol, was a deadly weapon in the manner claimed to have been used in this case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he granting or refusing of severances of defendants in cases not involving the death penalty shall be in the discretion of the trial judge”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State · Stubbs 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.