511 So. 2d 144 - Suan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 863 So. 2d 836 - Byrom v. State (2003), 684 So. 2d 643 - Davis v. State (1996)
43 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 508 So. 2d 1111 - Foster v. State · 460 So. 2d 126 - Barnes v. State · 453 So. 2d 1290 - Murphy v. State · Miskelley v. State · 296 So. 2d 695 - Myers 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that a material witness has received favored treatment at the hands of law enforcement authorities, particularly where that witness is himself subject to prosecution, is probative of the witness' interest or bias and may be developed through cross-examination or otherwise presented to the jury.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“one accused of a crime has the right to broad and extensive cross-examination of the witnesses against him, and especially is this so with respect to the principal prosecution witness.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e direct without equivocation that court reporters should never fail to preserve for record at-the-bench or chambers conferences following objections ... The trial judge is responsible to enforce this directive.”
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.