506 So. 2d 354 - Bracewell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Stroud v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] venire member who believes that the death penalty should automatically be imposed in every capital case should be excused.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Haney v. State“`inconclusive facts and circumstances tending prima facie to show the corpus delicti may be aided by the admissions or confession of the accused so as to satisfy the jury beyond a reasonable doubt, and so to support a conviction, although such facts and circumstances, standing alone, would not thus satisfy the jury of the existence of the corpus delicti.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“While a confession is inadmissible as prima facie proof of the corpus delicti, it can be used along with other evidence to satisfy the jury of the existence of the corpus delicti.”
4 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.