548 So. 2d 590 - Powell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Ex Parte Bird (1991), 690 So. 2d 1201 - State v. Hill (1996)
85 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Batson v. Kentucky · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] finding is `clearly erroneous' when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Johnson v. State“'3. Disparate treatment — persons with the same or similar characteristics as the challenged juror were not struck. Slappy [ v. State ,] 503 So.2d [350] at 354 [Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987]; [ People v. ] Turner , 42 Cal.3d [711] at 725, 726 P.2d [102] at 110, 230 Cal.Rptr. [656] at 664 [1986]; Wheeler , 22 Cal.3d 282 , 283 [583] P.2d at 760, 148 Cal.Rptr. at 906.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[T]he fact that the officer does not have the state of mind which is hypothecated by the reasons which provide the legal justification for the officer's action does not invalidate the action taken as long as the circumstances, viewed objectively, justify that action.' Scott v. United States , 436 U.S. 128 , 136 [ 98 S.Ct. 1717 , 1722 , 56 L.Ed.2d 168 ] (1978).”
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.