Hart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State (1995)
70 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 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · McFee v. State · 391 So. 2d 601 - Bullock v. State · 616 So. 2d 298 - Noe v. State · 533 So. 2d 473 - Lanier 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discretion of the trial judge runs toward almost unlimited admissibility regardless of the gruesomeness, repetitiveness, and the extenuation of probative value.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. State · Theodore v. State“[t]his rule necessarily vests in the Circuit Court a certain amount of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]utopsy photographs are admissible only if they possess probative value.”
3 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.