547 So. 2d 38 - Evans v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

cited by 35 later decisions

states following

February 2018

most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 117 Wash. 2d 829 - State v. Lord (1992), 823 So. 2d 473 - Caston v. State (2002)

35 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 507 So. 2d 898 - Shive v. State · 368 So. 2d 842 - Ramseur v. State · Davis v. State · 345 So. 2d 1044 - Robinson v. State · United States v. Barnett

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

“[t]he trial judge here, sitting without a jury, had broad discretion in the things he was able to consider. He may appropriately conduct an inquiry broad in scope, largely unlimited as to the kind of information he may consider, or the source from which it may come.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Taggart v. State · 881 So. 2d 174 - Swindle v. State
“(1) Present sense impression. A statement describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition or immediately thereafter. (2) Excited utterance. A statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 763 So. 2d 924 - Mills v. State · 693 So. 2d 927 - Clark v. State
“is a question for the trial judge, whose action should not be overturned unless this Court would be justified in concluding that under all and any reasonable interpretation of the facts the exclamation could not have been spontaneous.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Mariner Health Care v. Estate of Edwards · 763 So. 2d 924 - Mills 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.