547 So. 2d 111 - Castro v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

cited by 41 later decisions

states following

March 2016

most recently cited

41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 751 So. 2d 537 - Goodwin v. State (1999), 570 So. 2d 925 - Czubak v. State (1990)

41 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Colorado v. Connelly · Oregon v. Elstad · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Rodriguez v. New York

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“is presumed harmful error because of the danger that a jury will take the bad character or propensity to crime thus demonstrated as evidence of guilt of the crime charged.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Delgado v. State · Williams v. State
“[T]he Williams rule error improperly tended to negate the case for mitigation presented by Castro and thus may have influenced the jury in its penalty-phase deliberations. For this reason, we cannot say beyond any reasonable doubt that had the jury not heard McKnight's irrelevant, prejudicial testimony, it might not have determined that a life sentence was appropriate under the circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 800 So. 2d 182 - Evans v. State · 190 So. 3d 1105 - Cass v. State
“if it can be said beyond a reasonable doubt that the verdict could not have been affected by the error.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 34 So. 3d 187 - Harris v. State · 190 So. 3d 1105 - Cass 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.