501 So. 2d 154 - Godwin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2015
4 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 244 So. 2d 137 - State v. Melendez · Mulvey 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize that there are circumstances which justify a court's completion of a trial in the defendant’s absence where the defendant has absented himself after the trial’s commencement. See State v. Melendez, 244 So.2d 137 (Fla.1971). In such a case, the burden is on the defendant, after his apprehension or appearance, to establish that his absence was not voluntary. Mulvey v. State, 41 So.2d 156 (Fla.1949).”
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.