656 So. 2d 555 - Mercer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 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 561 So. 2d 638 - Steele v. State · Mariano 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure herein to charge the jury that the state had to prove intent and knowledge on the part of appellant relieved the state of its burden of proving the essential elements of the charged offense, deprived appellant of her sole theory of defense, and may have result ed in an impermissible conviction for a non-existent crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cortez 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.