532 So. 2d 584 - Doby v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995), 682 So. 2d 340 - Brown v. State (1996)
65 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 Geders v. United States · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State · Bond 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ersons may be found guilty on the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not for this Court to pass upon credibility of witnesses and where the evidence justifies the verdict it must be accepted as having been found worthy of belief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]atters regarding the chain of custody of evidence are largely left to the discretion of the trial judge, and `unless this judicial discretion has been so abused as to be prejudicial to the defendant, this Court will not reverse the ruling of the trial court.'”
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.