515 So. 2d 860 - Monroe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 557 So. 2d 542 - Griffin v. State (1990), Blue v. State (1996)
39 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 416 So. 2d 383 - Johnson v. State · Stringer v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper v. State · 493 So. 2d 365 - Harveston 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he evidence in a particular case generally warrants granting a lesser offense instruction if a `rational' or a `reasonable' jury could find the defendant not guilty of the principal offense charged in the indictment yet guilty of the lesser included offense.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“The cases are legion in this Court holding that lesser-included offense instructions must be warranted by the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o authenticate or vouch for a thing in writing. To attest as being true as represented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blue v. State · McIlwain 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.