494 So. 2d 1143 - Lambrix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 296 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Lambrix v. Singletary (1997), 515 So. 2d 748 - Shull v. Dugger (1987)
9 federal appellate · 296 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Lockhart v. McCree · Steinhorst 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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the evening of February 5, 1983, Lambrix and Frances Smith, his roommate, went to a tavern where they met Clarence Moore, a/k/a Lawrence Lam-berson, and Aleisha Bryant. Late that evening, they all ventured to Lambrix’ trailer to eat spaghetti. Shortly after their arrival, Lambrix and Moore went outside. Lambrix returned about twenty minutes later and requested Bryant to go outside with him. About forty-five minutes later Lambrix returned alone. Smith testified that Lambrix was carrying a tire tool and had blood on his person and clothing. Lambrix told Smith that he killed both Bryant and Moore. He mentioned that he choked and stomped on Bryant and hit Moore over the head. Smith and Lambrix proceeded to eat spaghetti, wash up and bury the two bodies behind the trailer. After burying the bodies, Lambrix and Smith went back to the trailer to wash up. They then took Moore’s Cadillac and disposed of the tire tool and Lam-brix’ bloody shirt in a nearby stream, On Wednesday, February 8, 1983, Smith was arrested on an unrelated charge. Smith stayed in jail until Friday. On the following Monday, Smith contacted law enforcement officers' and advised them of the burial. A police investigation led to the discovery of the two buried bodies as well as the recovery of the tire iron and bloody shirt. A medical examiner testified that Moore died from multiple crushing blows to the'head and Bryant died from manual strangulation. Additional evidence exists to support a finding that Lambrix c”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“never expressed an opinion as to appellant's guilt or innocence nor can such an inference be drawn from his testimony”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“use of the word `homicide' . . . constituted an expression of opinion as to appellant's guilt or innocence”
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.