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← 481 SO2D 449 - Grice v. State

Grice v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
March 1999
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State · Skelton v. City of Birmingham · Day v. State · 378 So. 2d 1173 - Turner v. State · Watson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[I]t is not necessary to prove to an absolute certainty, but only to a reasonable probability, that the object is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object at the commencement of the chain.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “conflicting evidence as to what actually took place creates a question for the jury to resolve.”
    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.