540 So. 2d 13 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2014
11 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 Jackson v. Denno · Lego v. Twomey · Rogers v. Richmond · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · Culbreath v. Johnson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case there was extensive and impermissible cross-examination concerning the truthfulness of [the defendant]'s statement. The Circuit Court in the end made detailed findings of the fact that [the defendant] had been Miranda warned and had knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to remain silent. The statement accordingly was held admissible. Among those findings we find no reference to the statement's truthfulness. Once the confession is before the jury, it is no longer impermissible cross-examination about the credibility of the confession becomes a key jury question. The error in receiving the testimony on truthfulness at the suppression hearing does not require reversal.”
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.