486 So. 2d 360 - Malone v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987), 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996)
80 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson v. State · 428 So. 2d 576 - Gilliard 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do something that will incite, encourage, or assist the actual perpetrator in the commission of the crime.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“A new trial will not be ordered unless the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction `unconscionable injustice.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person who shall be an accessory to any felony, before the fact, shall be deemed and considered a principal, and shall be indicted and punished as such; and this whether the principal have been previously convicted or not.”
5 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.