Shorter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2008
7 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 State v. Vazquez · 451 So. 2d 458 - Jackson v. State · 405 So. 2d 177 - DePiso v. Hamel · McMillian v. State · Huff 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Second, we conclude that the prosecuting attorney was also guilty of improper conduct by suggesting on cross examination of the defendant that the defendant had put three police officers in the hospital when the defendant was arrested in this case. Assuming there was some evidence to support this suggestion, we conclude such evidence would have been inadmissible in evidence as its prejudicial impact far outweighed whatever limited relevance it might have as to defendant's alleged consciousness of guilt. Although the trial court correctly sustained the defendant's objection to the prosecuting attorney's improper question, its subsequent cautionary instruction failed to undo the damage done by this time bomb of a question. Lastly, we conclude that the above-stated prosecutorial misconduct, when considered in totality, deprived the defendant of a fair trial in this otherwise close case on whether the defendant shot the deceased with criminal intent or in self-defense;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, we conclude that the prosecuting attorney was guilty of improper conduct in his suggestion made during final argument to the jury that the defendant's sister had previously attacked the homicide victim with a knife; there was utterly no evidence adduced below to support this suggestion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.