549 So. 2d 1316 - Gray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 585 So. 2d 660 - Willie v. State (1991), 568 So. 2d 1173 - Roundtree v. State (1990)
107 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 Drew v. United States · United States v. Dennis · McFee v. State · 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State · Commonwealth v. Morris
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been established that where fundamental rights are violated, procedural rules give way to prevent a miscarriage of justice.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]ut the court may, at its option, notice a plain error not identified or distinctly specified.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nce the jury has returned a verdict of guilty in a criminal case, we are not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion on our part that given the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable, hypothetical juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.”
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.