501 So. 2d 942 - State v. Bolden’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2006
11 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · Cherek v. United States · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Medical testimony of both the admitting physician and the doctor who performed the autopsy revealed that the seizure experienced by the victim was caused by the brain injuries and that those injuries were not caused by the victim’s involuntary shaking during the seizure. Medical testimony also showed that the victim’s brain injuries were caused by the child being violently shaken and were not the result of any external head injuries, such as the victim’s head hitting a gas outlet, toilet, or floor. The doctors who examined the victim testified that had this occurred, some external bruise or injury would have been observable on the outside of the victim’s head and that no such injuries were present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The record further shows that the victim was shaken more than once shortly before admission to the hospital and that she had been shaken several weeks earlier. Evidence of old brain injuries from shaking were observed during the autopsy. These injuries were from six to eight weeks old. Also, the record indicates that in the usual “Shaken Infant Syndrome” two areas of the brain would be injured. However, in this victim, the entire brain was injured, evidencing multiple shakings. Medical testimony showed that thee shakings which resulted in the fatal injuries occurred within three to four hours before the child was brought to the hospital.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Cruelty to juveniles is the intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect, by anyone over the age of seventeen, of any child under the age of seventeen whereby unjustifiable pain or suffering is caused to said child. Lack of knowledge of the child's age shall not be a defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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