535 So. 2d 68 - Leflore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State (1992), Jackson v. State (1996)
25 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 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State · 473 So. 2d 452 - Winters v. State · Burt v. State · 502 So. 2d 639 - Guilbeau v. State · Montgomery 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state is required to `prove the accused's guilt not only beyond a reasonable doubt, but to the exclusion of every other hypothesis consistent with innocence.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Isaac v. State · Barnes v. State“As to Count 4 of the indictment charging the capital murder of Andrew Odutola Kuyoro, Jr., if you believe from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence . .. the Defendant ... was engaged in or attempting to engage in the felonious abuse and/or felonious battery of Andrew ... and if you further believe from the evidence in this case beyond a reasonable doubt that on that date, the Defendant ... did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder Andrew ... while so engaged or attempting to engage in the felonious abuse and/or felonious battery of said child, then it is your sworn duty to find the Defendant ... guilty of capital murder as charged in Count 4 of this indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“As to a motion for a new trial, the trial judge should set aside the jury's verdict only when, in the exercise of his sound discretion, he is convinced the verdict is contrary to the substantial weight of the evidence; this Court will not reverse unless convinced the verdict is against the substantial weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. State · Johnson v. State
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.