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498 So. 2d 379 - Temple v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

57
cited by 57 later decisions
2
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

57 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably McClain v. State (1993), 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987)

57 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 428 So. 2d 1361 - Pearson v. State · Sand v. State · 370 So. 2d 930 - Fermo v. State · 468 So. 2d 856 - Gillum v. State · 420 So. 2d 1050 - Bayse 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “unless convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that, to allow it to stand, would be to sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Thompson v. State · Hodge v. State
  2. “not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion ... that given the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable hypothetical juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 530 So. 2d 146 - Brock v. State · 617 So. 2d 999 - McNeal v. State
  3. “it is unpermissable [sic] for a trial judge to impose a heavier sentence based in whole or in part upon a defendant's exercise of his constitutionally protected right to a trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Edwards 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.