504 So. 2d 974 - State v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 822 So. 2d 141 - State v. Patorno (2002), 604 So. 2d 600 - State v. Tucker (1992)
38 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 406 So. 2d 143 - State v. Boyer · 483 So. 2d 953 - State v. Garcia · State v. Clayton · Morris v. Schlumberger, Ltd. · State v. Savoie
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A homicide is justifiable: (1) When committed in self-defense by one who reasonably believes that he is in imminent danger of losing his life or receiving great bodily harm and that the killing is necessary to save himself from that danger.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ducre · State v. Wooden“A person who is the aggressor or who brings on a difficulty cannot claim the right of self-defense unless he withdraws from the conflict in good faith and in such a manner that his adversary knows or should know that he desires to withdraw and discontinue the conflict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court, on motion of the defendant, shall grant a new trial whenever: (1) The verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence; * * * * * * (3) New and material evidence that, notwithstanding the exercise of reasonable diligence by the defendant, was not discovered before or during the trial, is available, and if the evidence had been introduced at the trial it would probably have changed the verdict or judgment of guilty....”
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.