503 So. 2d 281 - Armstead v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

cited by 28 later decisions

states following

August 2018

most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 671 So. 2d 647 - Peterson v. State (1996), 514 So. 2d 295 - Faraga v. State (1987)

28 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 Missouri v. Hunter · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper v. State · Lee v. State · 484 So. 2d 1002 - Gates 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“a plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged and . . . fully (notifying) the defendant of the nature and cause of the accusation against him.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Nguyen v. State · Tucker v. State
“[A] lesser included offense instruction should be granted unless the trial judge and ultimately this Court can say, taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the accused, and considering all reasonable favorable inferences which may be drawn in favor of the accused from the evidence, that no reasonable jury could find that defendant guilty of the lesser included offense (and conversely not guilty of at least one essential element of the principal charge).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 555 So. 2d 691 - Ford v. State
“If an indictment reasonably provides the accused actual notice and includes the seven specific enumerated items [in Rule 7.06 of the Uniform Circuit and County Court Rules, formerly Rule 2.05 of the Uniform Criminal Rules of Circuit Court Practice], it is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 866 So. 2d 1107 - Davis 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.