Pacifico v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Woods v. State (1999), 719 So. 2d 1197 - Gore v. State (1998)
41 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 Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg · Ward v. Sentry Title Co. · Stringfellow v. Stringfellow · 443 So. 2d 955 - State v. Murray
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) THEN-EXISTING MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, OR PHYSICAL CONDITION. (a) A statement of the declarant's then-existing state of mind, emotion, or physical sensation, including a statement of intent, plan, motive, design, mental feeling, pain, or bodily health, when such evidence is offered to: 1. Prove the declarant's state of mind, emotion, or physical sensation at that time or at any other time when such state is an issue in the action. 2. Prove or explain acts of subsequent conduct of the declarant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. State“[i]t is impermissible for a prosecutor to comment in closing argument upon matters outside the record [and,] [b]y the same token, because a jury can be expected to attach considerable significance to a prosecutor’s expressions of personal beliefs, it is inappropriate for a prosecutor to express his or her personal belief about any matter in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be permitted to testify as to the victim's statements immediately prior to, and at the time of, the sexual encounter. Such statements are relevant to, and are admissible as, evidence of the victim's then existing state of mind regarding the question of ... consent.”
1 later decision 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.