579 So. 2d 360 - State v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2015
16 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Brockett v. Spokane Arcades Inc · Straight v. State · 504 So. 2d 396 - Keen v. State · 483 So. 2d 8 - Singletary 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Next, Ramos also claims prosecutorial misconduct as a result of the prosecutor’s statement to the jury: “And Susan testified, I believe she testified totally truthfully to you.” The law is well settled that expressions of personal belief by a prosecutor are improper. See Singletary v. State, 483 So.2d 8 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985). In Singletary , the court went on to state: A prosecutor’s role in our system of justice, when correctly perceived by a jury, has at least the potential for particular significance being attached by the jury to any expressions of the prosecutor’s personal beliefs. That expression in this case involved critical issues in the trial, to wit, defendant’s credibility and intent. Thus, as we have indicated, the question on this regard boils down to whether the evidence of guilt was so overwhelming as to justify a conclusion that defendant was not improperly prejudiced and that the error was harmless. Id. at 10 (citations omitted). As we have previously noted, the record here is not such as to permit application of the harmless error rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when such irrelevant evidence is admitted it is presumed harmful error because of the danger that a jury will take the bad character or propensity to crime thus demonstrated as evidence of guilt of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not effect the verdict.”
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.