Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994), 650 So. 2d 1289 - MacK v. State (1994)
64 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 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · McFee v. State · 437 So. 2d 19 - Box v. State · Johnson v. State · Culbreath v. Johnson
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we will not overturn a finding of fact made by a trial judge unless it be clearly erroneous.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Edmonds v. State · Dancer v. State“[t]he discretion of the trial judge `runs toward almost unlimited admissibility regardless of the gruesomeness, repetitiveness, and the extenuation of probative value.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. State · Brink v. State“Moreover, the State is entitled to comment on the lack of any defense, and such comment will not be construed as a reference to a defendant's failure to testify `by innuendo and insinuation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.