521 So. 2d 1040 - Matkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2015
11 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 Ohio v. Roberts · California v. Green · Barber v. Page · 362 So. 2d 1296 - Anderson v. State · United States v. Wells
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unavailability of an absent witness is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“for purposes of . . . the exception to the confrontation requirement unless the prosecutorial authorities have made a good-faith effort to obtain his presence at trial.' Barber v. Page , 390 U.S., at 724-725 [ 88 S.Ct. at 1322 ]. Accord, Mancusi v. Stubbs, supra; California v. Green , 399 U.S., at 161 -162 , 165 , 167 , n. 16 [ 90 S.Ct. at 19361937, 1938-39 , 1939 n. 16]; Berger v. California , 393 U.S. 314 [ 89 S.Ct. 540 , 21 L.Ed.2d 508 ] (1969).”
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.