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484 So. 2d 1002 - Gates v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
2
states following
May 2014
most recently cited

71 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 895 So. 2d 836 - Bush v. State (2005), Cole v. State (1987)

71 state decisions

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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 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 468 So. 2d 45 - Fuselier v. State · 416 So. 2d 383 - Johnson v. State · King v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Of course, the granting or not granting of a continuance is within the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Cole v. State · 716 So. 2d 1096 - Wilson v. State
  2. “[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).”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 33 So. 3d 1143 - Keys v. State · 503 So. 2d 281 - Armstead v. State
  3. “Mere words, no matter how provocative, are insufficient to reduce an intentional and unjustifiable homicide from murder to manslaughter.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 987 So. 2d 461 - Fryou v. State · 794 So. 2d 1034 - Phillips 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.