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512 So. 2d 922 - Kight v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

53
cited by 53 later decisions
4
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 596 So. 2d 957 - Traylor v. State (1992), 571 So. 2d 415 - Campbell v. State (1990)

51 state decisions

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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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Bell v. Wolfish · Edwards v. Arizona · Jackson v. Denno

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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “competent substantial evidence to support the trial court's rejection of these mitigating circumstances.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 934 So. 2d 1128 - Reynolds v. State · 819 So. 2d 705 - Cox v. State
  2. “[u]nder section 90.701, before a lay witness may testify in the form of inference and opinion the party offering the testimony must establish that the witness cannot [otherwise] readily, and with equal accuracy and adequacy, communicate what he has perceived to the trier of fact' and that the witness' `use of inferences or opinions will not mislead the trier of fact to the prejudice of the objecting party.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 564 So. 2d 1158 - Shiver v. State · 777 So. 2d 385 - Thorp v. State
  3. “These points of similarity `pervade the compared factual situations' and when taken as a whole are `so unusual as to point to the defendant.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Buenoano v. State · 781 So. 2d 425 - Barber v. State

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.