64 So. 2d 915 - Gerds v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Delva (1991), 684 So. 2d 736 - Chicone v. State (1996)
38 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 Motley v. State · Croft v. State · Henderson 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is an inherent and indispensable requisite of a fair and impartial trial ... that a defendant be accorded the right to have a Court correctly and intelligently instruct the jury on the essential and material elements of the crime charged and required to be proven by competent evidence.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCain v. State · State v. Delva“[f]or all that appears under this charge, the jury could have had for its sole determination the question of whether defendant broke and entered the dwelling house of the prosecutrix and nothing else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams 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.