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← 566 SO2D 207 - Hemphill v. State

Hemphill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

22 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2015

22 state decisions

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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 462 So. 2d 308 - Lambert v. State · 436 So. 2d 1381 - Morris v. State · Gibson v. State · Watson v. State · 276 So. 2d 652 - Nix 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In such matters, the presumption of regularity supports the official acts of public officers,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the burden to produce evidence of a broken chain of custody (i.e., tampering) is on the defendant.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “In cases involving a narcotics charge, `probative weight' of `weapons,' `scales,' and other `tools of the trade' generally is not `overbalanced by [possible] inflammatory' consequence of admitting these items into evidence.”
    1 later decision 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.