514 So. 2d 354 - King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably State v. McGuire (1997), 705 So. 2d 307 - Holland v. State (1997)
36 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Lockett v. Ohio · McCleskey v. Kemp · Cherek v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[the defendant] was convicted on circumstantial evidence which however strong leaves room for doubt that a skilled attorney might raise to a sufficient level that, though not enough to defeat conviction, might convince a jury and a court that the ultimate penalty should not be exacted, lest a mistake may have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The admissibility of evidence is within the trial court's discretion, and a reviewing court will not disturb a trial court's ruling unless an abuse of discretion is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.