679 So. 2d 747 - Foster v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 774 So. 2d 637 - Rutherford v. Moore (2000), 718 So. 2d 159 - Hawk v. State (1998)
56 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 National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Rodriguez v. New York · Wright v. Wright · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expert testimony alone does not require a finding of extreme mental or emotional disturbance. Even uncontroverted opinion testimony can be rejected, especially when it is hard to reconcile with the other evidence presented in the case.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] trial court may reject a claim that a mitigating circumstance has been proven provided that the record contains competent substantial evidence to support the rejection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Among the purposes for which a collateral crime may be admitted is establishment of the entire context out of which the criminal action occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.