547 So. 2d 29 - Blanks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Heidel v. State (1991), 575 So. 2d 16 - MacKbee v. State (1990)
54 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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · Barnes v. State · Weathersby v. State · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantially contradicted in material particulars[,]”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Taylor v. State“the Weathersby rule is simply a statement of a well-recognized principle of law that where the defendant's, and sole eyewitness's, version of a slaying is uncontradicted, reasonable and credible, it must be believed. And, if such version creates an absolute legal defense, he is entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Weathersby rule ... is not a jury instruction but a guide for the circuit judge in determining whether a defendant is entitled to a directed verdict.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State · Turner 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.