503 So. 2d 277 - Clark v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994), 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson v. State (1989)
50 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 · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · 391 So. 2d 601 - Bullock v. State · 468 So. 2d 45 - Fuselier 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is a presumption that the judgment of the trial court is correct, and the burden is on the appellant to demonstrate some reversible error to this Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State · Pierre v. State“... unless ... 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e will not reverse a conviction based upon both direct and circumstantial evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.