State v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 1996
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Melvin v. State · 640 So. 2d 1183 - McKinney v. State · Hayes v. State · 632 So. 2d 276 - McKenzie v. State · Thomas 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) No person, knowing that a criminal trial or proceeding or an investigation by a duly constituted prosecuting authority, law enforcement agency, grand jury or legislative committee of this state is pending or is about to be instituted, shall: (a) Alter, destroy, conceal, or remove any record, document, or thing with the purpose to impair its verity or availability in such proceedings or investigation[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not tamper with evidence because he was neither under arrest nor did he know that a law enforcement officer was about to instigate an investigation.”
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.