479 So. 2d 266 - Perez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2018
6 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 Tibbs v. Florida · 412 So. 2d 461 - Swartz v. Swartz · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · 402 So. 2d 1194 - McIlwain 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term "physically helpless" means that a person is unconscious, asleep, or for any other reason physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jury heard some evidence that the victim communicated her unwillingness to act. However, the victim also testified that Perez hit her in the face breaking her nose and causing much bleeding to occur before she was sexually battered. Thus, the jury heard some evidence which established that the victim was physically unable to effectively communicate her unwillingness to the act. On appeal, the Perez court concluded that there was substantial, competent evidence from which a jury could find the victim was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rendered the victim physically unable to effectively communicate her unwillingness to the act.”
1 later decision 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.