Sudduth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably McClain v. State (1993), 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State (1992)
71 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 Batson v. Kentucky · 538 So. 2d 329 - Pinkney v. State · 551 So. 2d 165 - Davis v. State · 533 So. 2d 473 - Lanier v. State · 544 So. 2d 782 - Williams 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“photographs of the victim should not ordinarily be admitted into evidence where the killing is not contradicted or denied, and the corpus delicti and the identity of the deceased have been established.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Photographs of bodies may nevertheless be admitted into evidence in criminal cases where they have probative value and where they are not so gruesome or used in such a way as to be overly prejudicial or inflammatory.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(The credibility of a witness, even a convict witness, is for the jury.)”
6 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.