678 So. 2d 910 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2016
10 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 Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Ward v. Sentry Title Co. · 510 So. 2d 857 - Craig v. State · 102 So. 2d 281 - Raulerson v. State · 109 So. 2d 422 - Hamilton 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“JUDGE: That is just improper for you to call anybody a liar. It's up to the jury to determine who might be mistaken or wrong. COUNSEL: I was just JUDGE: I'm getting so concerned about this that I had to talk to you a couple times, if the state doesn't object. It was improper for someone to call people liars. COUNSEL: I was just commenting on the evidence. JUDGE: There is no evidence that anybody is a liar. ... There is all kind of evidence, conflicting testimony, but because somebody isn't consistent doesn't mean they are necessarily a liar. It's not up to you in this court to call anybody a liar. Do you understand that? COUNSEL: Yes, Your Honor." (emphasis supplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“judge may not sum up the evidence or comment to the jury upon the weight of the evidence, the credibility of the witnesses, or the guilt of the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For the trial judge to say in open court during final argument that there is no evidence that either witness had lied amounted to the trial judge's assessment of the very issue reposed in the jury. There is nothing in this record from which we could deduce that this comment had no effect on the jury. Indeed, given the preeminent role of the judge in the courtroom and the nature of the factual dispute given to the jury to resolve, it seems clear to us that his comment might well have affected the outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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