566 So. 2d 652 - State v. Copes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2015
7 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · State v. Hogan · 436 So. 2d 471 - State v. Sutton · 445 So. 2d 1198 - State v. Wright
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evident purpose of the vehicular homicide statute is to curb traffic fatalities caused by the consumption of alcohol. It is not aimed at persons involved in vehicular fatalities whose alcohol consumption does not cause but merely coincides with such an accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gourdine“the victim's own negligence was also a contributing cause of the accident and resulting death is not a defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gourdine
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.