658 So. 2d 86 - State v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Gore (2008), 197 So. 3d 16 - Khadafy Kareem Mullens v. State of Florida (2016)
28 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 Brady v. United States · Florida Bar v. Hawkins · 462 So. 2d 1105 - Dumas v. State · 559 So. 2d 218 - Tucker v. State · 439 So. 2d 246 - Dumas 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n appropriate oral colloquy will focus a defendant's attention on the value of a jury trial and should make a defendant aware of the likely consequences of the waiver.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An effective waiver of a constitutional right must be knowing, voluntary, and intelligent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mere fact that Upton remained silent during the trial and did not object to the judge sitting as the fact-finder was insufficient to demonstrate that he agreed with the waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.