644 So. 2d 987 - Castro v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 660 So. 2d 637 - Johnson v. State (1995), 842 So. 2d 52 - Spencer v. State (2003)
32 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Crisp v. Rubin
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] standard is whether the juror's view would "prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath." ... [T]his standard likewise does not require that a juror's bias be proved with "unmistakable clarity."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial judge has the duty to decide if a challenge for cause is proper, and this Court must give deference to the judge's determination of a prospective juror's qualifications.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Suri v. State · Morrison v. State“Castro got the steak knife and stabbed Scott between five and fifteen times. The medical examiner testified that she did not know in what sequence the chest wounds were inflicted or whether Scott lost consciousness after the strangulation. Id. at 989 . We held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.