54 So. 2d 165 - Hopper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1991
18 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 Lee v. State · Blanco v. State · Bellamy 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We find no hint or suggestion in the record that Kane's death was due to any agency other than being hit by the defendant's automobile, which striking of the deceased, the defendant admitted, occurred after drinking five or six beers. The rule obtaining in Florida is that when a wound from which death might ensue has been inflicted and thereafter death occurs, the burden of proof is upon the defendant to make it appear that the death did not result from such wound but from some other cause. Bellamy v. State, 56 Fla. 43 , 47 So. 868 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It appears to be well settled that counsel has the right to comment on the sufficiency of the testimony or the legal insufficiency thereof, and the jury has the sole prerogative of settling the disputes and conflicts of the controversy under appropriate instructions.”
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.