521 So. 2d 1290 - Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2018
13 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 United States v. Webster · Johnson v. Lutz · 484 So. 2d 1002 - Gates v. State · 390 So. 2d 287 - Jackson v. Griffin · Griffin 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unresponsive to the question and there was no purposeful effort or intent on the part of the State to elicit such information from the witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“He's come by the office where I work, but we didn't really talk. He was just telling me he was out of jail[.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Records of regularly conducted activity. A memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions or diagnosis, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, if kept in the course of a regularly conducted business activity, and if it was the regular practice of that business activity to make the memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, all as shown by the testimony of the custodian or other qualified witness, unless the source of information or the method or circumstances of preparation indicate lack of trustworthiness. The term "business" as used in this paragraph includes business, institution, association, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind, whether or not conducted for profit.”
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.