542 So. 2d 352 - Ramirez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 668 So. 2d 954 - Terry v. State (1996), Mansfield v. State (2000)
39 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Johnson v. Florida · Bundy v. Florida · 471 So. 2d 9 - Bundy v. State · Reckner v. Foremost Insurance Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of a witness's qualifications to express an expert opinion is peculiarly within the discretion of the trial judge, whose decision will not be reversed absent a clear showing of error.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The knife itself, however, could have been properly admitted as relevant evidence because it was an instrument which could have caused the victim's wounds, based on the medical examiner's testimony and the other evidence linking this knife to Ramirez.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e find that no scientific predicate was established from independent evidence to show that a specific knife can be identified from the marks made on cartilage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ramirez v. State · Ramirez 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.