489 So. 2d 643 - Sommer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably William v. State (1989), 548 So. 2d 573 - McCray v. State (1988)
31 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 Kolender v. Lawson · United States v. Tobias · United States v. Walker · Exxon Corp. v. Interstate Natural Gas Ass'n of America · 375 So. 2d 1271 - Jackson 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Where a weak link in the chain of custody is found, the weight and credit afforded the evidence, rather than its admissibility, is questioned. Sommer , supra. Where a break in the chain of custody, or a”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kennard v. State · Tolbert 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.