State v. Gatch’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2013
17 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 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · State v. Pitcher · 622 So. 2d 198 - State v. Bourque · 549 So. 2d 351 - State v. Kotwitz · 411 So. 2d 415 - State v. Vaccaro
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Improper venue shall be raised in advance of trial by motion to quash, and shall be tried by the judge alone. Venue shall not be considered an essential element to be proven by the state at trial, rather it shall be a jurisdictional matter to be proven by the state by a preponderance of the evidence and decided by the court in advance of trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“constitutes reversible error only when the prosecutor intended to emphasize the defendant's failure to testify.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the defendant is the only witness who could have rebutted the state's evidence, `a reference to the testimony as uncontroverted focuses the jury's attention on the defendant's failure to testify' and mandates a mistrial.”
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.