Derden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995), 682 So. 2d 340 - Brown v. State (1996)
28 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 381 So. 2d 983 - Jones v. State · Scott v. Florida · 449 So. 2d 766 - Winters v. State · 498 So. 2d 1224 - Van Buren v. State · Davis 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the granting of a cautionary instruction regarding the testimony of an accomplice is discretionary with the trial judge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]s a general rule a trial judge should not hesitate to grant the cautionary instruction when the State is relying upon the testimony of co-conspirators.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“I charge you that Jay Posey, Willie James Sherrod and Tommy Turner have admitted being accomplices to this burglary. You are to regard this testimony with great suspicion and to consider it with caution.”
3 later decisions 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.