Steele v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2018
14 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 Sorrell v. State · Miller v. State · Espey v. State · 364 So. 2d 397 - Jacks v. State · 475 So. 2d 609 - Ex Parte Bell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' " ' " ' [E]vidence which merely raises a conjecture, surmise, speculation, or suspicion that [the] accused is the guilty person is not sufficiently corroborative of the testimony of an accomplice to warrant a conviction .' 23 C.J. S. Criminal Law , Section 12(5)(b).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bosner v. State · Gordon v. State“cannot be used to support the jury's verdict”
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.