509 So. 2d 953 - Tuff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2000
11 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 Clark v. State · 457 So. 2d 1084 - Ryan v. State · 97 So. 2d 277 - Tipton v. State · 334 So. 2d 642 - Abbott v. State · Daniels v. Lake Pleasant Land Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant contends during closing argument the prosecutor made several remarks that were prejudicial. Several of these remarks describe ordinary negligence, rather than culpable negligence, and suggest, by implication, this is the test in the present case. The prosecutor also indicated the judge would speak similarly. Hence, says appellant, the prosecutor conveyed that if Mrs. Tuff did not use reasonable care, she was guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Next, Mrs. Tuff urges that the prosecutor's Golden Rule argument, his reference to a parent's responsibility to keep his or her children safe, and his mention of the number of children each juror had (who had children), mentioning each juror by name, was inflammatory. The prosecutor also allegedly indicated Mrs. Tuff was a menace to the jurors' children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Finally, appellant attacks the prosecutor's statement that Mrs. Tuff was told of her right to remain silent and her right to the presence of a lawyerappointed, if necessarybecause the officers know defense lawyers are sharp enough to claim the client was not given a lawyer. This, she urges, is a distortion and an unfair attack on defense counsel.”
1 later decision 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.