530 So. 2d 155 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State (1992)
53 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 Raphan v. United States · Zerman v. Melton · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · McFee v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elementary that, for preservation of error for review, there must be contemporaneous objections.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule is well established that when an isolated prejudicial question or comment by the prosecution is promptly objected to and the objection is sustained, and particularly when the circuit judge instructs the jury to disregard the incident, there is a presumption the action on the part of the trial court cured the error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The qualification of an expert witness is left to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and his determination will not be reversed unless it clearly appears that the witness was not qualified.”
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.