578 So. 2d 366 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2012
5 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 Florida Bar · 471 So. 2d 9 - Bundy v. State · 426 So. 2d 76 - Brown v. State · 525 So. 2d 477 - Smith v. State · Campbell 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) they had insufficient time to depose or investigate [the co-defendant] and did not have the benefit of a written deposition with which to cross-examine him, an absolute essential in order to impeach the witness by his prior testimony; and (2) [the co-defendant] gave devastating, noncumulative testimony in this case ..., testimony which could not have failed to have had a decisive impact on the jury. At the very least, the trial court should have allowed the defendants a brief recess of a few days to allow them to conduct a complete deposition of [the co-defendant] and have the transcript of same prepared for their study before pressing forward with opening statements and testimony in the case... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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