674 So. 2d 250 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 758 So. 2d 749 - State v. Castleberry (1999), 802 So. 2d 1224 - State v. Deruise (2001)
53 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Sandstrom v. Montana · Penry v. Lynaugh · Pulley v. Harris
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may infer that the defendant intended the natural and probable consequences of his acts.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“much credit should be accorded to the good sense and fair-mindedness of jurors who have seen the evidence and heard the argument, and have been instructed repeatedly by the trial judge that arguments of counsel are not evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the instant case, we need not reach the issue of whether there was an erroneous denial of defendant's challenge for cause, since the record reveals that defendant failed to use all his peremptory challenges.”
3 later decisions 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.