520 So. 2d 127 - Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 568 So. 2d 1173 - Roundtree v. State (1990), 599 So. 2d 951 - Ormond v. State (1992)
26 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 McFee v. State · Johnson v. State · 485 So. 2d 681 - West v. State · Lee v. Lee · Harden 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is in the best position for determining the prejudicial effect”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he victim's testimony shows that the appellant ceased his actions only after the victim managed to press the buzzer alerting the nurse.... [T]his Court stresses the fact that the evidence supports the conclusion that appellant's failure to rape the victim was due to her resistance and ability to sound the alarm, rather to any abandonment on appellant's part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“argument was that female jurors should place themselves in the victim's position. Id. The court held that because the trial court sustained the defense's objection and admonished the jury to disregard the remark, the possible prejudice was averted. Id. Similarly, the trial court in the present case sustained the objection to the”
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.