490 So. 2d 839 - Norris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2015
15 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State · 362 So. 2d 1236 - Voyles v. State · 441 So. 2d 84 - Edwards 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trial courts must remember that the purpose of the McDaniel rule is to remove voluntary intoxication as a defense, not to provide an affirmative instruction for the state which might mislead a jury to thinking that it is not necessary [for the state] to prove intent, when intent is a requisite ingredient of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he essence of the offense of aggravated assault is that the accused has knowingly caused bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon likely to produce death or serious bodily harm. In this setting it is competent for the victim to describe the nature and extent of the injuries she has received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a person is guilty of aggravated assault if he . . . attempts to cause or purposely or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon or other means likely to produce death or serious bodily harm. " (emphasis supplied). While Ford is correct that the State need not prove "serious”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.