562 So. 2d 305 - Laws v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1992
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yarber v. State · 346 So. 2d 1177 - Sexton v. State · 402 So. 2d 1106 - Mauldin v. State · 339 So. 2d 96 - Bell v. State · 346 So. 2d 1180 - Ex Parte Sexton
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "The purpose for requiring that the chain of custody be shown is to establish to a reasonable probability that there has been no tampering with *Page 494 the evidence. . . . 'The evidence need not negate the most remote possibility of substitution, alteration, or tampering with the evidence, but rather must prove to a reasonable probability that the item is the same as, and not substantially different from, the object as it existed at the beginning of the chain.' . . . (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Jones · Miller v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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