506 So. 2d 989 - Meshell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 631 So. 2d 167 - Green v. State (1994), 531 So. 2d 632 - Moawad v. State (1988)
1 district · 86 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 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 297 So. 2d 888 - Pittman v. State · Fairley v. State · 478 So. 2d 297 - Haymond v. State · Davis 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury is the judge of the weight and credibility of testimony and is free to accept or reject all or some of the testimony given by each witness.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“If there is sufficient evidence to support a verdict of guilty, this Court will not reverse.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. State · Jones v. State“convinced that the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice.”
3 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.