547 So. 2d 298 - ELS v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2017
19 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 434 So. 2d 883 - Florida Bar · 362 So. 2d 10 - State v. Allen · State v. Lewis · Sawyer v. Sandstrom · RAL 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.
“(1) A person is guilty of theft if he knowingly obtains or uses ... the property of another with intent to, either temporarily or permanently: (a) Deprive the other person of a right to the property or a benefit therefrom. (b) Appropriate the property to his own use or to the use of any person not entitled thereto.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. G.C. v. State · Z.S. v. State“the driver told him the truck belonged to the driver's uncle from whom it had recently been stolen and to whom it had been returned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. C.T. 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.