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548 So. 2d 118 - Stokes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
2
states following
December 2016
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991)

1 federal appellate · 45 state decisions

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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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Jackson v. Denno · United States v. Matlock · Bumper v. North Carolina

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

  1. “we will not overturn a finding of fact made by a trial judge unless it be clearly erroneous.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]his rule necessarily vests in the Circuit Court a certain amount of discretion.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[a]lthough relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.