656 So. 2d 426 - Bryant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 770 So. 2d 1119 - Kearse v. State (2000), 905 So. 2d 42 - Dufour v. State (2005)
44 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 Wainwright v. Witt · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Jones v. Howard · Bottoson v. Florida · 436 So. 2d 93 - Combs 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any reasonable doubt exists as to whether a juror possesses the state of mind necessary to render an impartial recommendation as to punishment, the juror must be excused for cause.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by a fully informed and advised defendant, and not by counsel acting alone.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can lay aside any bias or prejudice and render a verdict solely on the evidence presented and the instructions on the law given by the court.”
3 later decisions 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.