521 So. 2d 106 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 760 So. 2d 89 - Maddox v. State (2000), 852 So. 2d 226 - FB v. State (2003)
1 federal appellate · 66 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 Leland v. Oregon · Payne v. Wood · 403 So. 2d 956 - Ray v. State · Rutledge v. Florida · Motley 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of fundamental error should be applied only in rare cases where a jurisdictional error appears or where the interests of justice present a compelling demand for its application.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether the jury instruction on insanity disapproved in Yohn v. State, 476 So.2d 123 (Fla.1985), is fundamental error requiring reversal in the absence of an objection?”
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.