Miskelley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Carr v. State (1995), 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State (2003)
41 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 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · King v. State · 440 So. 2d 246 - Dycus v. State · Cody v. State · Mattox 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The corpus delicti in a homicide case consists of (1) the death of a human being, and (2) a criminal agency causing the death.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hopson v. State · Parks v. State“any evidence that is material and relevant, which has a bearing on the motives, bias and interests of a witness is admissible ... where there is doubt as to the relevance of the examination, the scales should weigh in favor of admitting the examination”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The criminal agency is usually shown by witnesses who saw the homicide, or by circumstances sufficient to establish the crime to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis.”
3 later decisions 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.