622 So. 2d 1233 - Sherrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2015
14 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 Shepard v. United States · McNeal v. State · Kelly v. State · 492 So. 2d 1281 - Watts v. State · 503 So. 2d 277 - Clark 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the trial judge allowed the testimony of [the informant] into evidence, he made certain that a cautionary instruction was given to the jury.... The jury was instructed to view his testimony with caution and suspicion in light of [his] criminal conviction. The judge also reminded the jurors that they should consider the rest of the physical evidence presented during the trial and not judge the case based on the alleged confession... No evidence was presented which showed that [the informant] would benefit in any way for testifying against Sherrell.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we strongly question the reliability of testimony which was given in exchange for a reduced sentence. . . . Informants . . . are offering evidence against their fellow inmates in exchange for reduced sentences. In the process of reaping their benefit, they are manipulating the system by helping to convict innocent citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] statement of the declarant's then existing state of mind, emotion, sensation, or physical condition (such as ... mental feeling, pain, and bodily health).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State
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.