604 So. 2d 271 - Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 735 So. 2d 238 - Hughes v. State (1999), 682 So. 2d 340 - Brown v. State (1996)
69 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 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State · Jackson v. State · 534 So. 2d 1019 - Brown v. State · 436 So. 2d 1381 - Morris 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (a) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (b) helpful to the clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether there is any indication of tampering or substitution of evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]atters regarding the chain of custody of evidence are largely left to the discretion of the trial judge and will not be disturbed unless there appears to be an abuse of discretion.”
5 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.