State v. Devoney’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 2015
3 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 Robison v. Oklahoma · 579 So. 2d 97 - Baptist Hosp. of Miami, Inc. v. Maler · 95 So. 2d 594 - Russ v. State · State v. Hamilton · 69 So. 2d 771 - Marks v. State Road Department
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He said, well, you know, I could sort of lean toward your thinking except for the fact that, whether you like it or not, I can't forget the fact that he had a prior bad driving record. He was quoted as driving twenty miles an hour over the speed limit. Do you if you continue to vote not guilty, do you want to turn this man loose knowing that he's got a DUI now and a prior record? Do you want to turn him loose so as to kill somebody else?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devoney v. State“Does one or more jurors' discussion, during the course of jury deliberations, of a matter adduced during the course of trial but which they were instructed to disregard constitute an overt act of misconduct that warrants a new trial?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devoney v. State“Upon an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment, a juror is not competent to testify as to any matter which essentially inheres in the verdict or indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devoney 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.