560 So. 2d 171 - Wheeler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 682 So. 2d 340 - Brown v. State (1996), 729 So. 2d 203 - Burns v. State (1998)
31 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 462 So. 2d 308 - Lambert v. State · 451 So. 2d 706 - Jesco, Inc. v. Whitehead · Cole v. State · Boutwell 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the granting of a cautionary instruction regarding the testimony of an accomplice is discretionary with the trial judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court instructs the Jury that the law looks with suspicion and distrust on the testimony of an alleged accomplice, and requires the jury to weigh same with great care and caution and suspicion. You should weigh the testimony from alleged accomplices, and passing on what weight, if any, you should give the testimony, you should weigh it with great care and caution and look upon it with distrust and suspicion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Neal Woodard and Franklin Holmes are accomplices in this case, and the testimony of an accomplice is to be considered and weighed with great care and caution. You may give it such weight and credit as to which you deem it to be entitled.”
2 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.