478 So. 2d 796 - Harbin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

cited by 48 later decisions

states following

November 2017

most recently cited

48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 637 So. 2d 871 - Perry v. State (1994), 671 So. 2d 647 - Peterson v. State (1996)

48 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 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 461 So. 2d 686 - Jones v. State · Lee v. State · Cook 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[A] lesser included offense instruction should be granted unless the trial judge and ultimately this Court can say, taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the accused, and considering all reasonable favorable inferences which may be drawn in favor of the accused from the evidence, that no reasonable jury could find the defendant guilty of the lesser included offense (and conversely not guilty of at least one essential element of the principal charge).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 637 So. 2d 871 - Perry v. State · 503 So. 2d 281 - Armstead v. State
“[a] lesser-included offense instruction must be granted where a reasonable juror could not on the evidence exclude the lesser-included offense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Taylor v. State · Johnson v. State
“shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged and shall fully notify the defendant of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. Formal or technical words are not necessary in an indictment, if the offense can be substantially described without them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 503 So. 2d 281 - Armstead v. State · 584 So. 2d 733 - Smallwood 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.