Franklin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

cited by 72 later decisions

states following

June 2017

most recently cited

70 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 860 So. 2d 704 - Howell v. State (2003), 921 So. 2d 292 - Spicer v. State (2006)

70 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 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State · 487 So. 2d 1304 - Gray v. State · 572 So. 2d 865 - Mitchell v. State · Newburn 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Requests for a directed verdict and motions JNOV implicate sufficiency of the evidence.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Townsend v. State · Stewart v. State
“For there to be a conspiracy, "there must be recognition on the part of the conspirators that they are entering into a common plan and knowingly intend to further its common purpose." The conspiracy agreement need not be formal or express, but may be inferred from the circumstances, particularly by declarations, acts, and conduct of the alleged conspirators. Furthermore, the existence of a conspiracy, and a defendant's membership in it, may be proved entirely by circumstantial evidence.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Neal v. State · Culp v. State
“an elderly homeless man. Id. at 288 . The teenagers threw rocks at and kicked the victim. Shortly thereafter, one of the other three boys in the group left, came back with a gun and shot the victim. Id. All of the boys were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. Id. Our supreme court, finding that the only evidence of conspiracy in the case was the fact that Franklin and Jackson went with the other boys to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 881 So. 2d 908 - Smith 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.